Sihanoukville

The weekend before we arrived in Vietnam, they took us on another trip to Sihanoukville.  A small beach town in Cambodia.  My birthday was on Sunday, so Saturday night at dinner they ordered me a "birthday cake", or a pancake type thing with nutella.  It was delicious.  :-)
The beach was fantastic.  We ordered food, drinks, pedicures, and massages all with out having to leave our lounge chairs. 
There was the cutest little puppy who came and snuggled with me.  <3

Siem Reap

We took a weekend trip to Siem Reap.  Saturday we spent the whole day "raiding tombs".  We saw three different temples/tombs/ruins.  We saw Ankor Wat which is the main temple there.  It is on the Cambodian flag.  We also saw the ruins of a temple that was featured in the first Tomb Raider movie.  That one was my favorite.  I wondered off where there were no people.  Another girl in our group followed.  The two of us proceeded to get as lost as we could.  We had just started getting into the good stuff when the group called and we had to head back.  Disappointing...  Sunday we stopped at another one.  It was my second favorite.  There were a ton of little kids that loitered at the entrance and would then take you on a "tour".  They had you climbing rocks and squeezing into tiny crevices.  They were very cute and it was really cool.  Of course at the end of your tour they suddenly put on a sad face and were starving and needed money....

Phnom Penh

 This is a restaurant we ate at for lunch.  Shabu Shabu, or something like that.  We have pots of boiling broth in front of us and grab noodles, veggies, meats, whatever from the conveyer belt and toss in the broth.  It was more fun than tasty...

 Just a cool picture of monks I saw walking along the river. 

 This is my Shabu Shabu dish.  The pics downloaded all mixed up...

 Our classroom. 

 We were told we were being picked up at the airport.  Great!  However, they did not tell us we were being picked up in Tuk Tuk's!  It was very interesting....

 The things people ate....

 View from my hotel room.

 Our luggage being transported from the airport.

 Our first day the tuk tuk drivers, who we became great friends with, took us out.  We drove around the countryside quite a bit.  It was amazing.  They took us to a shooting range.  Then to the killing fields. (pictured later.)

 On our last night we took a boat ride on the river.  It was very beautiful.

 Shooting range.  This was very painful!

 At the killing fields.  This boy wanted his picture taken.  Too cute.

 Killing fields

  Killing fields

  Killing fields.  Very depressing.

 Sunset view from my room.

 The Sunday we arrived they took us all on a small tour of the city.  This is a temple we visited.

This is the whole group minus 2.  Josh came a day late and Winston did not go on the tour.

A lotus for you.

My last day in Seoul I went to Bongeunsa Temple.  It was my favorite day.  I had a tour guide so I actually knew what things were!  We got to participate in a tea ceremony.  It consisted of a special way to serve, pour, and drink the tea.  After the tea ceremony we learned how to meditate.  We only meditated for 5 minutes.  It was quite difficult!  Last we all made lotus flowers out of paper. 
The walk from the tube to the temple was very interesting.  I'm not sure if there was some event going on or what, but the streets were being decorated with flowers and there was amazing tree art everywhere.

To teach or not to teach.

The first picture is of a little market just near my hotel.  The second picture is from girls night.  Dale took me to the fancy part of town with all the posh shops and such.  We ate at a really nice restaurant with the coolest atmosphere.  I had a pumpkin pasta dish.  It was so amazing.....
The other pictures are from Tuesday, I went to school with Dale.  Dale is who I got the idea of coming overseas to teach from.  So, I thought I'd see what it was like.  I got to sit in on a few of her classes as well as another person's class that she works with.  She taught 3rd grade I believe.  They were incredibly smart kids, very good at English.  The other teacher taught really little kids.  They were ADORABLE, but crazy!
During the times that she lesson planned and I did not need to be there, I went shopping!  There were some really cool store front displays being put up. 
For lunch we went to a rotating sushi restaurant.  Really good.  Then for dinner Indian again!  So so good...   I ate fabulously on this trip.  :-)