Sunday 23rd November 2008
Week 12 was marked by the appearance of yet another volun.jpg)
teer at the Red House! Leron arrived over the weekend, he is a scientist who specializes in plant science and will be helping the farmers at the UNESCO site. Fred also spent the week in Chamcar Bie but he will be heading to Siem Reap next week to see if his engineering skills will be more applicable there. Bif, Abbey and Erin were in PP this week for various reasons too.
The biggest news this week has to be the long awaited start of a proper garden at the Red House! On.jpg)
Tuesday we dug 14 holes and transferred 14 banana trees. This took pretty much the whole day as the earth was baked hard! The work payed off though as we now have a small banana plantation and are anxiously awaiting fruit. Leron is also helping us to develop a more varied garden. When we visited PP at the end of this week for a meeting with Kevin Morley about Cambodian scholars we all went to a The Garden Shop and bought various herbs and fruits to plant around the Red House! However, since Joss and I will be heading back to Singapore for most of December I think Leron will be doing a lot of the gardening on his own.
Teaching this week was very fun as we finally have some split pins! This m.jpg)
eant Joss was able to make the clocks she has been dreaming of with the youngens. Another creative class we had this week was a session of leaf and bark rubbing which yielded a large multi-colored tree (that now decorates the back of the middle kids classroom). This was an extremely tiring class to teach as you might imagine since I had only one pair of scissors and over 20 kids in each .jpg)
class. Although I was exhausted afterward it was one of the most enjoyable lessons I've taught so far since there was a good balance between English vocabulary on nature and fun, memorable activities.
It's strange to think that in a few weeks we will be back in Singapore for almost a month! I think there will certainly be some getting-back-to-your-own-culture shock, but I am looking forward to seeing friends and family and just relaxing a little for a few weeks. However, I have no doubt that after a month I will be ready to get back to Chamcar Bie, especially since Joss and I plan to work for part of the time in order to fund some more of our gap year!
Although the Phnom Penh visit was in my week Joss would really like write about some of the things we did so I am not going to talk about that right now. Instead I will update you on the level of our Khmer! Joss and I have finally learned all the letters in the alphabet. All 23 vowels, 32 consonants and 31 "feet" or subconsonants. Now we are trying to spell all the words in our limited vocabulary, which the kids in some of my classes find very amusing. It has now become part of the routine for my afternoon class that I sing/recite the Khmer alphabet at the start of every lesson.
Thats about it for this week and I need to get on with my lesson plans!!
Bye bye!
Week 12 was marked by the appearance of yet another volun
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teer at the Red House! Leron arrived over the weekend, he is a scientist who specializes in plant science and will be helping the farmers at the UNESCO site. Fred also spent the week in Chamcar Bie but he will be heading to Siem Reap next week to see if his engineering skills will be more applicable there. Bif, Abbey and Erin were in PP this week for various reasons too.The biggest news this week has to be the long awaited start of a proper garden at the Red House! On
.jpg)
Tuesday we dug 14 holes and transferred 14 banana trees. This took pretty much the whole day as the earth was baked hard! The work payed off though as we now have a small banana plantation and are anxiously awaiting fruit. Leron is also helping us to develop a more varied garden. When we visited PP at the end of this week for a meeting with Kevin Morley about Cambodian scholars we all went to a The Garden Shop and bought various herbs and fruits to plant around the Red House! However, since Joss and I will be heading back to Singapore for most of December I think Leron will be doing a lot of the gardening on his own.Teaching this week was very fun as we finally have some split pins! This m
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eant Joss was able to make the clocks she has been dreaming of with the youngens. Another creative class we had this week was a session of leaf and bark rubbing which yielded a large multi-colored tree (that now decorates the back of the middle kids classroom). This was an extremely tiring class to teach as you might imagine since I had only one pair of scissors and over 20 kids in each .jpg)
class. Although I was exhausted afterward it was one of the most enjoyable lessons I've taught so far since there was a good balance between English vocabulary on nature and fun, memorable activities.It's strange to think that in a few weeks we will be back in Singapore for almost a month! I think there will certainly be some getting-back-to-your-own-culture shock, but I am looking forward to seeing friends and family and just relaxing a little for a few weeks. However, I have no doubt that after a month I will be ready to get back to Chamcar Bie, especially since Joss and I plan to work for part of the time in order to fund some more of our gap year!
Although the Phnom Penh visit was in my week Joss would really like write about some of the things we did so I am not going to talk about that right now. Instead I will update you on the level of our Khmer! Joss and I have finally learned all the letters in the alphabet. All 23 vowels, 32 consonants and 31 "feet" or subconsonants. Now we are trying to spell all the words in our limited vocabulary, which the kids in some of my classes find very amusing. It has now become part of the routine for my afternoon class that I sing/recite the Khmer alphabet at the start of every lesson.
Thats about it for this week and I need to get on with my lesson plans!!
Bye bye!
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