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29 Nov 2001

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At last we can start teaching properly! With twenty PCs in two schools, all the students have their own computers and progress is much quicker. But they're big classes for our hands-on methods, so we team-teach, taking turns to write, talk, help and scold. Everyone is enthusiastic (it's still new I guess!) so we get good attendance and participation. And the schools have tried their best to make us comfortable, despite their generally poor facilities. We use the headmaster's office for our lunch at Chay Voloman and he has recently bought us camp beds to cushion our midday nap! Over at Preak Eng we have been given our own key to the staff toilet (don't laugh, it's a luxury over here) and they have placed a small table in the computer room, which they keep stocked with bottled water and fresh coconuts from the trees in the school compound. It's the thoughtfulness of these small actions that is so touching. I just wish they'd call us Andy & Ming instead of "teacher", as many of them are older and much wiser than us!