Last month's poll The question that 31 of us answered a month ago was about how adventurous we are when it comes to eating exotic food when we're traveling in a foreign country. I'm happy to report that 0% of people polled head straight for McDonald's! Always nice to hear.…
Health isn't something that we should ever neglect, even when life starts to get really chaotic. If our health is really important to us, then there are no real excuses why we shouldn't be able to maintain good health even when life turns into an obstacle course on us. So for the…
We all have them. An exercise we just love to hate (or hate to love). The one that makes us feel like we're going to die, to use Jillian Michaels' expression. But we do it anyway because it's good for us, or because every so often we really do kind…
Hi everyone! My name’s Liz, I live near London, and I’d like to thank Sagan for the opportunity to do a guest blog on her website, which I’ve been a fan of for several months now. This is my first ever blog post – not before time I guess. In…
This is ‘Sagan’s Dad’ with another Guest Post. As many of you know, I am living in Cambodia and working with the United Nations for one year. When I left Canada I brought along a few misconceptions with me. In this post I will share them with you and the…
Yesterday there was no blog post because I got sick. Again. I was bedridden the entire day and it felt really awful. I think I'll be holding off from eating too much unusual food for a while! While I was lying in bed all sickly and exhausted, I was thinking about…
Can you fall asleep? I have terrible sleeping problems, so when I was contacted about a new online resource, SleepTonight.com, which provides information about insomnia, I was very interested. I have been lucky since coming to Cambodia: living here must really agree with me because after months and even years…
Hailing from a city nicknamed "Winterpeg" for its frigidly cold weather, it is with great pleasure that I have been soaking up the heat here in Cambodia. My body hasn't really had time to acclimatize (which I think is partly why I became so ill), but I adore the temperature…
I had a post all lined up for yesterday, but sometimes, an upset tummy and a visit to the hospital just get in the way! My dad and I spent the weekend in Siem Reap to visit the temples. It was a gorgeous trip and the temples were spectacular! So…
On Thursday I took a cooking class that lasted from 9am-4pm to learn how to cook Khmer dishes, and it was fantastic. There were only six of us students and our teacher took us to the market to tell us all about the different kinds of fruit and herbs. We…
