The final week that was

It's our final day as volunteers! We've spent a large part of this morning cleaning our house and selling our fridge and air-con unit. Then we came into work and gave all our collegues a farewell present. Now we are finishing off our work, tying up loose ends and trying to clean up our desks.

Despite this being our final week in Soc Trang we've been very busy. So I present to you, in photos, the week that was...

We started the week with a trip to Soc Trang's only beach.

Where the sand and water were brown, brown , brown. We found a seasnake at the waters edge then I got eaten alive by sandflys.

Dan went to a farewell dinner with his tennis club that night, where they presented him with a souveneir trophy and flag.

On Monday we went to a meeting at Au Tho B Village. Then we put on a seafood and beer lunch for all the co-management sub-group leaders. I tried 3 different kinds of snail.

On Wednesday we held the teachers training workshop on mangrove forests. Dan gave a presentation on "What are Mangroves?"...

And look how interested everybody was!

The project put on a farewell dinner for us that night at Restaurant 36. Project staff and government officials from the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, the Department of Education and Training, the Forest Protection Sub-Department and Fisheries all came along.



Dan and me with our boss and the project driver.

Drinking buddies: Dan, Philipp and Mr Vinh.

Tonight we will have our final farewell dinner then we leave Soc Trang on Sunday - once we have finished all our packing and tidying!