Cambodia Day 8 and 9

Hey Everyone,

So not alot to report from yesterday, we slept, read and ate. That is pretty much it.

Then today we also had a sleep in because we have been so tired. So after breakfast we finished planning our lessons. we went to photocopy some worksheets for the kids as well and to our amazement, one copy was 100 riel, we got 40 sheets and it cost us $1! then we had a nap before we went to the school.

Because sarah and andrew have now left, we were split up for our uni class, steph took the two more advanced classes and i took the same one as we'd had before. I went through lots of grammar with them today, looking at possession and using 's. It wasn't as much fun without steph there, because it was quite good working together in the class before but it still went pretty well. With the kids today, I had a story book of the frog prince, that had some owrds replaced by pictures. so i drew up big versions of the pictures and went through that vocab with them before hand, so then they could help me read the stroy. it worked pretty well, and most of the kids stayed focussed but its hard with such a large group when they are at varying levels, some couldn't understand much so they tuned out a bit. Then they drew pictures of a part of the story, which is alwasy a fail safe plan. then we made new sentences with the pictures after and by the end of it, we played games because they were all over the place. all in all not a bad day, but now i just need to think of some more things to teach them this week until we get onto the crhistmas stuff next week. we just don't have enough things to do with them for christmas to string it out for two weeks.

So today i took a combined class for the inetermediate and preintermediate classes. I began by telling them i couldn't spell and i wans't good at grammar - i thought it was best to be honest and they were more compatent at English. This was fine they said and just laughed and smiled at me. one of the girls gave me a present and a letter even though it was my first day. One of the guys guys nickname is chicken - and so i called him fried chicken which everyone liked. It was a good class - no idea what im going to teach them though!!

My kids had an ok start, they ignored me but when i read their work that had taken in what i was saying. however their lost focus in their second half and began singing "my bonnie went over the ocean, my bonnnie went over the sea.."everytime i asked them a question.. i have no idea why?..

Tonight we went to our favourite khmer Kitchen for dinner because we get to sit on the floor. We are really looking forward to weekend because we are going for a trip to a beach and we are going to stay in a place with hot water!!