Beth and Yuko

It's amazing to be here because there are many people from all backgrounds of nationality, race and religion who come to this little spot on earth called Battambang...but the one thing that's always the same is the beautiful heart that each and everyone of them have. Unfortunately, as the old saying goes, for every 'hello' there is a 'goodbye'...but yet another that says 'it's never a goodbye, but see you again' :D

Beth (from the Philippines) and Yuko (from Japan) have returned to their home-lands this March...this blog entry is dedicated to them and to all the friends who've come and left, and who are still here, but will inevitably leave, and yet, for those to come.

Thank you for adding your mark of beauty in the painting of my life's picture. (Wah, so poetic...attempt!)

Beth and me

(left to right): Verle (from Belgium), Marion, Yuko and me

(left to right): Verle, me, Marion, Neary, Ali and Cassie

Bieze (Verle's husband) and me


Song: Constant Change
by Jose Mari Chan

We're on the road
We move from place to place
And oftentimes when I'm about to call it home
We'd have to move along
Life is a constant change...

The friends we know we meet along the way
Too soon the times we share form part of yesterday
'Cause life's a constant change
And nothing stays the same, oh no

Clouds that move across the skies
Are changing form before our very eyes

Why couldn't we keep time from movin' on?
Hold on to all the years before this moment's gone?
Why must we live the days at such a frightening pace?

We're all like clouds that move across the skies
And changing form before our very eyes

Have we outgrown our Peter Pans and wings?
We've simply grown too old for tales of knights and kings
'Cause life's a constant change
And nothing stays the same, oh no