Visit to Boeng Krum

Before our students left for their ministry assignments around the country, we all traveled to Boeng Krum one more time for an afternoon of fun at Srey Lis’ house. Here you are seeing the students walking to the ferry that took us across the river.


The main course for the day was a Khmer/Vietnamese dish called Bin Cheou which is kind of like a crepe filled with pork, fish and coconut. Here you are seeing one of the women preparing the Bin Cheou, which as you can see is quite a labor intensive, requiring many utensils and ingredients.


Here you are seeing a picture of the finished product.


In this picture, you are seeing Tim as he demonstrates the proper method of eating Bin Cheou. First you take a piece of the Bin Cheou, wrap it in a lettuce leaf and then dip it in the


After lunch, when we were all full, we entertained ourselves by watching the children trap sparrows. Using a net that surrounded the lower section of a house, a little patience, and some rice to lure the birds into the net area, the children caught many birds, and we helped them to pluck and roast these small morsels.


After lunch and our time of catching sparrows, we all traveled by boat to visit the farms of the people in Boeng Krum. Here you are seeing our students carefully traveling in the rickety boat, a word that here means a boat that is very wobbly, threatening to dump us all unceremoniously in the river, which would have been much to the amusement of the children who were watching us.


A storm was brewing up that day, and all of the students were having a good time walking into the winds, feeling the fresh breezed coming off of the river blowing over their faces and bodies.


As we waited for the boat to take us back to the other side of the river, we took this picture of Channa and Tiffany as they talked on the riverbank.


This picture was taken as we walked through the radish and sesame fields on the other side of the river. This young girl was working their with her mother in the fields.


Before we boarded the ferry again, we took this picture of Zanda as she climbed a tree to search after ripe guavas. Obtaining this fruit was evidently crucial for Zanda as she had to climb nearly 15 feet into the air to pick the guavas.