Travels...

Once again i am so so sorry i think it has been about 2 weeks since i last wrote...
Well since then i can tell you a journey has unfolded...
We hit the South of Cambodia Ortess Beach... two nights and a day laying in the sun on and beach.. our diet was mango shakes and fresh fruit salads..Also have grown addicted to sugar cane juice.. need atleast 2 a day.. love it... it was great to just unwind for a few days..
How ever the regret of laying in the sun hit the next day... while having the worst sunburn all over the body and sitting on a 12 hour bus to Siem Reap jammed packed with people and driving on a unsealed road wasn't so comfortable but it was a expreince that we can laugh about..

Arrived in Siem Reap alive and very much in pain and in need of a shower!!! Staying at such a nice place Jasmine lodge in most lonely planets.. Staff amazing and free breaky..
First day we head out to the Angkor Watt temples...Amazing there are just so a many and all hiden away and each one with a story that unfolds in time...
Our tuk tuk driver Was more then willing to talk and tell us about each one..
One we visit was the begining of the red cross..
A temple was build, the Buddisht and Hindu Religion joined together to build a medical center for the people in the comunity it was build in the shape of a cross each four side is a element Fire, earth, water and wind, and it is surround by water because they believe (i too) that water is one of the most healing elements.
After the second world war everyone went into celabration so happy that it was over and then Cambodia begun to go into war itself with out half of the people knowing it was caled the Poi Pot war.. This One Man was trying to change a country on his own he didn't want the westen world to take over and tryed to make everyone into peasents.. he went on a rage killing everyone who believe in something he didn't over 3 million people had been killed in this time he sent his men through these town and the temples wasone of the many places, destroying and killing everything. Abandon now the temple one man had found the red medical temple and had begun to treat the wounded. He then brough a camel and rode around and treated those in need and brought everyone he could back for treatment.. This is when The red cross was first founded.. One man doing all he could and today it is still going. Everywhere around the world everyone knows what Red cross is.. He is a Hero in my eyes..
The tuk tuk driver telling us all this was so pasionate about it all.. We then asked him how he knows so much, It than unfolded that he himself and his family had lived in this time of war.. He thinks he is the only one of his family alive but he doesn't know.. Lost in time he says.. His story goes on for many hours and Mark and I can not belive that everywhere we go we are being sent these people with such amazing storys of life and so much hardship but they are all the most beautiful souls and we have learnt so much from each one...

After a huge day we head to the markets for some street food and a sugar cane juice for me!!!! love it..
So another regret... Ice in drink and street food.. dare i say the next week and any plans we had have now quite literally gone down the toilet.. 5 days later i make it ourside to finish the temple and visit one of the boys who works at jasmines jodges village .. still not really up for much but need to get out of the room.. The boys village we head to his older brother has started up a school out there.. it is a school for over 1500 students around the village free of charge and he has Cambodian people and some volunteers all working and helping teach the children for free..
The school has great facilities, a music room which a canadan man has donated all the guitars, they also have a fruit and veg farm, chickens, pigs!!, soccer field rooms with white boards and teaching tools.. all of it has been donated by passing volunteers and Sambath the older brother has done all of this on his own...
http://www.shcccambodia.org/ there is a video that explains more about it..
Like i say so many times i feel that everywhere we have been everything is showing me or linking all of this together for me.. i know that this is now what i show be doing volunteering.. everywhere i need..
However earning money is now also needed.. lol
We had to stay a few more day in Siem Reap still wasn't feeling well so now that we have spent most of our time in Siem Reap we have not much time left i fly out on the 29th and have to start earning the money so i can volunteer some more..
So in Chiang Mai now north Thai land.. That bus trip is also one or the books.. lol still wasn't well in a bus seated for 10 but 15 on there and all the backpacks jammed around me.. falling on me most of the time.. while have to ask to stop at a toilet every hour!!! lol crossing the boarder took about 2 hours!! lol but we are here!!! heading out to help in villages and work with the elephants tummy feeling bit better..
However this leaves no time for me to head back to Vietnam before i fly out.. Instead Mark is heading back to work there for a few weeks again and to see how the soccer field is coming along.. Thank-you everyone all the donations where amazing and all the extra help.. Mum has organised tracksuits and care packages to be sent over to the children which is just so amazing everyone has been so supportive through all of this and thank-you so much..
So Flight to Italy then working for a few months i hope to return to the children in october and work for a bit not wanting to leave then at all but knowing that i can give them more and spend more time with them if i have been working for 3 months.. recharge the bank balance and then head back i think was the best option for me.. Knowing Mark is able to come back and see them is also giving me peace of mind that i can leave..

anyways i have now been on the internet far too long.. lol more at later date
Smiles and thoughts
bubble xxxxx