You might have thought it's all work and no play here, not so, but it is quite hard to convey the significance of St. Patrick's Day around the world when you're in the depths of South East Asia! Nothing daunted I ordered thes cupcakes for the Foundation staff and my friends the tuktuk drivers. They come from the most beautiful cake shop I ever saw here in downtown Siem Reap. It's called Blossom and is run as a training enterprise and sells the most exquisite French patisserie, I couldn't resist including also a couple of photos of the shop itself.
I'm not really sure if those receiving the cupcakes quite caught the meaning of the Shamrock, but they loved the cakes!
Later on I gave a class on the Story of St. Patrick to my students, with a handout on green paper, I
also showed them photos on the iPad of Parades and celebrations around the world. They reciprocated by telling me about their customs and traditions at the Camdodian New Year which falls each year in April. We may not have fully understood each other but at least we shared our sense of pride in our separate nationalities.
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