Hi everyone!
Yesterday was a pretty chilled day. We began the day searching for a decent coffee, which we have been longing since we got here (the coffee at the guesthouse is only crappy instant). We wandered up to a really nice coffee shop, very modern and it even had air con! the coffee was very sweet, but still better than anything else we've had so far, so we enjoyed it a lot. we spent quite a while there, writing our lesson plans at the same time and after that we walked back to the book shop where we bought some headphones so we can now skype :) like most mornings this week, we then went to the photocopying place, where they have come to know us quite well and our large amount of photocopying each morning. its still cheap as chips no matter how much we photocopy, so we don't really mind.
classes went pretty well for the day. Damaris had sent us some great ideas for activities to do with the kids, so we made the most of them and pretty much used them all up straight away. steph's uni kids think Damaris is a guru, because any thing they ask her a grammatical based question, she says she'll ask her mum and then gets back to them with the answer.
Today, we again had a fairly uneventful morning, which seems to be a pattern since andrew and sarah have left (we're enjoying our small sleep ins). We had breakfast and planned our lessons down stairs at the guest house, but they managed to forget steph's boiled eggs and baguette, so by the time she asked them about it, she was so hungry she jsut got her usual baguette and nutella.
Our classes were again pretty uneventful. My (elise) uni class was really good and i had the students writing conversations which was great. the kids were fairly focussed but by the end of the second half we'd all lost it a bit. My (steph) uni class was really good as usual, lots of laughter and discussion. my kids class was aslo the same as usual, the opposite of my uni class.
By the end of the day, we decided that we really needed a cocktail (sarah and andrew will be surpirsed to hear that it was our first drink of the week this week) so we headed to FCC at the river side for happy hour, 2.50 cocktails! We then had a pizza which was very delicious and satisfying, we've got a bit left over for a midnight snack. We then ventured to the second hand book store and the dvd store we found last week, bought a few books between us and then 4 dvds each at $1.50.
Now we're back at the guest house, a bit tired tonight, becuase the last couple of mornings we have had the lovely wake up call of a construction site, a baby crying, dogs barking and cats fighting. So off to write our tests for the students for tomorrow (they have a small test every friday). Steph's uni class are looking forward to the top mark in the class getting a hug from her. We're quite excited that it is almost the end of the week, because we are heading to Sihanoukville on the weekend, which is a beach side town 4hrs bus ride from here. we're going to treat ourselves to a bit of luxury at a hotel and go snorkelling wihc should be fun :)
hope all is well at home
goodnight
love elise and steph xxxx
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