Summer English Program!
Words from Teacher John…
After we had picked up the scarves Jake and I discussed the idea of making tags to help brand them, because otherwise the actual scarves have no mention of Cambodian Threads. So, in true Cambodian style we cruised around, found a shop that looked the part, designed our tag right there and asked to get around 700 of them made. The printing process ended up taking longer then expected but we were able to get them to the Heng’s and thanks to their efforts we got them mailed out the day Jake left to go to Indonesia – perfect timing! Plus, the finished products look awesome, with a black and white image of Angkor Wat that I designed, and a very classy font Jake choose.
The third week of the English program also went off without a significant hitch. Melissa, Jake and I were the volunteer trio, lean and mean. The high turnout of students in both the morning and afternoon classes necessitated some student corralling, moving the students into only 3 out of the 4 classrooms. My own teaching has been steadily improving and I performed some of my best teaching yet; working on prepositions and relative locations. This sounds boring, but I had them practice using a picture drawn on the board that the students would come up and ad to, but to draw they had to answer questions first. Since we were a tad understaffed I did not get to observe any of Jake or Melissa’s teaching, but from asking my students “Did the last teacher do a good job?” I always received answers in the affirmative.
Our lunch break at the Heng’s was both delicious and relaxing. I have begun to actually fall asleep in the hammocks they have, waking up to the family giving me approving smiles of my lounging technique, and to casually sip coffee. Naysim’s younger sister has her exams coming up soon, and we compared test taking stories. After relaxing we went back and finished up another successful Sunday of teaching!
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