filed in Asia, Cambodia, Ecuador, Gap Year, South America on Apr.01, 2011
Hi, I’m Alex – I’m in my second year studying History of Art at University, after taking a wonderful gap year with The Leap! My Gap Year began with The Leap in January 2009 when I jetted off to Ecuador (in South America) for 10 weeks on a team project. I spent some the most [...]
filed in Announcements, Asia, Cambodia on Sep.27, 2010
We are extremely excited to announce that the Cambodia Leap will be changing from January. Lucky Leapers traveling to Asia in 2011 will experience our most exciting placement yet, with a fantastic combination of community and water conservation projects in three amazing environments. Starting in Siem Reap, Cambodia’s hippest town the team will teach in [...]
filed in Announcements, Asia, Cambodia, Destinations, Gap Year on Apr.22, 2010
Are you thinking of going on to do teaching at university after you A-levels and want to do something teaching related on your Gap Year? Or would you simply like to do something more rewarding with your summer? If the answer to either of these questions is a big fat YES, then look no further! [...]
filed in Cambodia on Mar.31, 2010
Hi everyone at The Leap! I thought I would give a very quick email to say we made it to Cambodia! We have only been here one day and are all having a fantastic time and get on with each other so well. Siem Riep is unbelievably beautiful. We are all in love with it. [...]
filed in Asia, Cambodia on Jul.28, 2009
Three weeks into their Summer in Cambodia and after well deserved rest, spent exploring the capital Phnom Penh, the team are back to work. For the next three weeks they are assisting a rural community with rice planting, setting up income generating schemes and teaching local tuk tuk drivers to speak English. Here’s some photos [...]
filed in Asia, Cambodia on Jul.21, 2009
Our three intredpid Summer Leapers- Vivienne, Laura and Maud (fondly referred to here at Leap towers as the Three lovely Musketeers) are doing great work in Cambodia and are unbelieveably over the halfway stage of their Asian adventure already! The girls spent their first three weeks in Siem Reap, building water filters with Trailblazer Foundation, [...]
filed in Cambodia on Feb.24, 2009
On Monday, we took them to visit the project site including the pagoda, the village around the pagoda and the Don Bosco. The monk at the pagoda had already informed them that we would have the kids in class on Wednesday as Tuesday was still the Chinese New Year and some of the kids went [...]
filed in Cambodia on Jan.29, 2009
Hello Again from sunny Cambodia! Not really sure where to start …. ! It’s all a bit surreal in Phnom Penh, all of a sudden we have been taken out of our comfort zone and routine in Siem Reap and we are in the big city. This week has been a real eye opener and [...]
