teaching teaching teaching....

Teaching is going really well...the children think I'm 'funny' and enjoy a good old sing song. 'I like the flowers' is their personal fave! Not mine, it gets a little high and is embarrasing when I have to sing it on my own to them! The other day a chicken ran through my classroom and then the dog ran in the other door, caught it and started eating it. The children expected me to do something about it....I think I shrieked!! The next day a chicken wandered into the class with all its chicks following it which caused havok when all the children get up and chase them all around the classroom!!

Where I am teaching is basically a house, there are two houses in the orphanage organisation and so the children come from one to have their lessons in the other. Each house has a 'mum and dad' who basically act as parents to the children.

Yesterday my youngest student who has just come to live in the house was waiting at the gate of the house to welcome me, waving and helped me cycle in by pushing my bike from behind (like Dad used to when I was learning to ride a bike) I felt a little ridiculous but it was sweet. Today he packed my bag for me at the end of the lesson and went to bring me my bike! He is called Piup and is a sweetie, he is in the photo of the little boy holding a plastic bottle full of little fish, they fish outside the house in the pond.

One of the photos shows my student, Chan Rotha, with his workbook.....filled with ants. Nice.

Another photo shows the children outside the class with a crab that one of them had caught earlier in the pond, I thought it had been left outside but later in the lesson Vichaka took it out of his satchel and had it hanging off his hand by its pincers, he then pulled off a leg. I was an unimpressed charrrrr. I felt a little sick...

The other day when I went to teach the 'dad' of the house came and put a whole green coconut on the table infront of me with a straw coming out of the top. So I taught the class while sipping fresh coconut juice out of a coconut. I felt like I should be on a beach in Barbados. I can just hear Dad and Lyds saying now 'princess'...

Yesterday the 'mum' went out and bought me some form of crunchy shrimp thing. I have no idea what it is called or how to explain it so see the picture above!! I was worried I would have to eat all 5 of them infront of the class, luckily I took them home and tried to offer them to the other volunteers...!!