I Feel Like a Proud Mother

I love most of my students. I teach a wide range of 7th, 10th, 11th and 12th graders. The students in Cambodia are very sweet, gentle, polite, and respectful.  They also tend to be very, very quiet. When I stand in front of the class i have to speak very, very slowly and usually have to wait a few minutes in order to get a response from them. Most classes contain anywhere from thirty to forty students. It hasn't been to overwhelming and I'm finally getting used to standing in front of the class teaching some new English lessons. The students really get a kick when i try to speak kamar they also like it when i act goofy and dance in front of them. I enjoy trying to make them laugh or just getting them to speak. I hope that i'm providing some sort of education that they're benefiting from and I hope that they're feeling a little more motivated to learn English from me.

Some of the students get very shy and intimidated to practice their english. But when there are those that do my counterpart, Vanny and I like to challenge them and push them to new boundaries. A few weeks ago we had given our advanced class a group project. They were to prepare and present a presentation on health. Each group had a different topic such as, smoking, giving birth and living healthy. They had to present in English and for some of them this was not an easy task. I could tell especially by how nervous some of them were. Each group presented drawings and one group even did a short skit. I was very proud of all of them. We even invited our school director to sit in and watch. He was also very impressed.

This is my host sister-Theravan. I wanted to stand up and clap for her after she finished presenting but i thought that wouldn't go to well with the rest of the class as they might think that i'm playing favorites. But non the less, she did an awesome job.

Some of these students have extraordinary drawing skills.

The director giving his two cents.

The teacher in the foreground is Vanny. She's my counterpart extraodinaire. She's a wonderful friend and an amazing teacher. I am so happy and blessed to be put in the same site with her.