Social Activities

The thirteen volunteers in my group have formed a very sociable group, and we regularly organise activities. Some of our evening activities have proved to have cultural complications. For example, it was difficult to find questions that people from England, Finland, Cambodia and the Philippines could all answer equally on our quiz night, and our Blankety-Blank night left some nationals (who have a different sense of humour) very bemused! My attempt to introduce everyone to the joy of Caption Competitions was also met with a mixed response! Bingo and karaoke have, however, been universally understood and appreciated and our Halloween party was a great success.

We have arranged a couple of trips out together. One day when we had no lessons, we took a boat over the Mekong with our bicycles, and explored a very rural and primitive island. Tomorrow, we are hoping to hire a couple of speedboats to go up-river to visit a silk-weaving village and a famous pagoda.
We shall all be sorry to be going our separate ways after next week, and are planning some weekend get-togethers in the future.