Team CWS

The Kangafrogs

Alycia and Jeremy started volunteering at the start of our second week and these two have been an awesome addition to our time here at the wildlife sanctuary.

They are a super friendly French (Jeremy) and Ozzie (Alycia) couple who are currently half way through the impressive feat of travelling from Australia to France by land! They’ve had so many cool adventures that we’ve loved hearing about and we take our hats off them for attempting to do it the environmentally-friendly way!

They introduced us to Jungle Speed (the most stressful game on the planet), the delightfully named “Trou du cul” (Arsehole!) card game (which the girls totally kicked ass at), joined us in the new craze that is “Insect, Seed or Rice?”, we bonded over our mutual love of wildlife and contempt for all things bad for the environment, and we all discovered the joy that can be achieved through sharing a 24 pack of ice-cold Cambodian beer after a day sweating our guts out in the Cambodian heat.

Thanks for all of your wonderfully bubbliness, your wisdom, and for all of the giggles this week you lovely pair!

If you want to see what they’ve been getting up to on their trip, or are thinking of doing something similar, check out their website OurTinyLittleWorld which gives you loads of advice about how to do it as painlessly and enjoyably as possible!

Lucie “Queen of Monkeys!”

She will love that title. Probably.

Lucie is another Frenchy…no connection to Jeremy, but a happy coincidence for the ever-struggling Lucie who has had to speak only English to the staff here for the last 7 months without a word of French passing her lips  (bar the odd swear-word I’ve no doubt).

Lucie is in charge of the rescued monkeys…8 macaques, the famous Gib, and a very beautiful and very timid Leopard Cat. This lady is amazing…she spends day in and day out with these wonderful but demanding animals and gives them so much love it’s wonderful (and reassuring!) to see. I am in awe of her and her relationship with these animals…she knows them inside out and back to front.

Lucie is Jungle Queen in real life and Jungle Queen at cards…she has the swiftest hand in Cambodia (probably) and it’s probably not a coincidence that she doesn’t drink beer, and funnily enough has an almost 100% track-record at winning Jungle Speed.

Nick!

Nick has been our Volunteer Co-ordinator for the last two weeks. He does everything we do, gets properly stuck in and always has a smile on his face. Our experience at Cambodia Wildlife Sanctuary wouldn’t have been the same without him, so he deserves his place as one of Team CWS.

He also likes to occasionally pretend he’s a monkey.