The students have boarded their flight to LAX. What a wonderful treat to have them this semester! We know how much you must have missed them. Thank you for sharing their wonderful minds and spirits with us! Always, Instructors. PS, here’s one......Read More
Dear family and friends, This morning the Mekong group is saying goodbye to our three month adventure together and embarking on different new adventures from Phnom Penh. Liv and Alden, our first two to depart, are now through security and waiting to......Read More
Dear Fall 2018 Mekong Semester Families, It is hard to believe that 3 months have passed since your student embarked on this incredible adventure! It won’t be long until students will be boarding their planes back home. We are sure you are......Read More
As we spend our final days together doing transference near Kampot, we have one last collaborative post to share with you. Each of the 10 mini-posts have been written in general response to three questions proposed to us by our instructors: What is......Read More
Weaving keeps finding me on this trip. From the weaving sisters in Luang Prabang, the lady in Kong Lor cave who was weaving table cloths and scarfs from the loom she made herself, to the ladies on Koh K’sach Tonlea island in Cambodia who are......Read More
About midway through our island homestay, I was invited by my host-sister, Linda, to a party. I was so excited that I not so calmly said yes and soon we were off on our bikes in the dark, headed to another village on the island. It was a birthday......Read More
All 14 of us piled onto two boats for a boat trip around the island on some of the smallest boats imaginable. I asked the mother of a muslim family and her husband, the boat driver, what it was like to live on the island. To my surprise, she......Read More
Hello all from our homestay on Koh K’sach Tonlea Island! It so happens that Thavry has a neighbor across the road who does cupping (an ancient Chinese practice of chi-healing) for just $2 a session. Naturally, I had to do it. It felt a bit......Read More
Hi all, I received these images and I wanted to share them.The team are well on the island of Koh K’Sach Tonlea. They are coming to the end of the homestay now and will soon commence their student led Expedition Phase in the south of Cambodia......Read More
In Vientiane, people drive on the right-hand side of the road. In Bangkok, people drive on the left-hand side of the road. In Siem Reap, people drive on both sides of the road. Okay, so I’m exaggerating slightly, and there are Southeast Asian......Read More
Hi everyone, We just wanted to share some fun pics from our time in Cambodia so far. We visited the Angkor temple complex and have been spending the past few days in Phnom Penh learning about the harrowing genocide and current issues Cambodians are......Read More
Hi it’s Liv and Alden. Today was a sunny, majestic, sweaty, busy day here along the Mighty Mekong. We started the day off at a ripe 3 AM and headed, by bike, to Angkor Wat. Buzzing with excitement, we waited for the sun to rise from behind the......Read More
The group have been busy with their rap vid challenge! 🙂 ...Read More
The Mekong explorers said goodbye to our lovely homestay families on Ban Don Donh village and have arrived in Pakse on Nov 8th. Yesterday morning we visited a waterfall where the Dragons enjoyed the spectacular view as well as a dip in the water. ......Read More
Hi everybody! A few days ago, Steve taught us a lesson on the power of stories. Inspired by Hemingway’s “baby shoes, for sale, never worn” story, we wrote our own 6-word stories. I thought I’d share a few from the group: Long......Read More
Sa bai dee! I hope you’ve been enjoying the many Yaks from Baan Don Donh. Over the past two weeks, we’ve all had the time of our lives making this island our home. Of course, with every homestay comes funny homestay stories, and with......Read More
