Today, our final full day at Khvein school, was the Prize-Giving at the school. This morning Margaret presented book prizes to top students from years 5 and 6. We started with year 6 and School Director Mr Hon, read…
Month: October 2008
A “Banquet” for the teachers and helpers
A happy event today! Our tuk tuk man (we call him “Number 9” after his registration number 0209) was waiting and took us into the town centre to the eatery known as “BBQ” – simple, eh? There we treated all the…
The annual school excursion to Angkor National Museum and the Silk Farm
We’re exhausted!! Hot and happy. We really are flagging- it’s the heat and humidity that saps the energy from us, also the massive amount of stuff we’re doing. Continually ‘negotiating’ in getting things done tires us too. I…
“Let there be light!” Solar electricity installed at the school
Today has been another exciting one! We have been suffering with the ‘Delhi belly’ – a casually drunk iced tea at a shop we think was the donor of our stomach bug – but nothing took away from the thrills…
Special school assembly for new school year 2008-2009
What a happy day today! School opened for the new school year with a special school assembly in the schoolyard made weatherproof for the monsoon season last year when we laid road-base. The school population was assembled according to grade…