Summer Session 2011 - September
Words from our CEO…
Cambodian Threads’ Summer English Program celebrated its first season with a musical cheer. The group of Khmer students collected in the courtyard of the Okay American School and with true cross-cultural spirit exchanged songs over Teacher Johns smooth acoustic guitar. It was a hot afternoon in the developing village of Prekbongkong, Cambodia, and we appreciated the gusts of wind, balanced by notebooks-turned-fans.
Monay Heng was among the group of students. Monay, the second youngest daughter of the Heng family at 13, studied through our English Program all summer. With a glowing personality and a motivated spirit, she is a truly wonderful young lady. It’s with that same enthusiasm that she has been able to improve her English. When she started earlier in the summer, she was a bit shy to speak English, but now she speaks with confidence and grace
After the musical performance, Monay Heng and I had time to chat. She impressed me by not only expressing her interests and dislikes, but also by pronouncing with a smooth intonation and correct verb tense. As an English teacher at Pannasastra University of Cambodia for two years and a Fulbright scholar in Vietnam, I was truly amazed by her improvement. Monay and I spoke for a long time with her fellow classmates who also possessed English communication skills.
It was a wonderful feeling to see the concept of starting an English program come to fruition and seeing the reaction from the students. This program was really successful and it is largely because of the efforts from our tireless volunteers who woke up to hop in a tuk-tuk at 8 am on a Sunday. Cheers to you English teaching volunteers from America, Canada, England, and Australia (plus all the volunteers who shared their culture and their English skills from Korea, France, and Holland)!
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