I got up at 5 am and met the daughter of the village vet who is also on the village development committee. We are already partnered with the village and they have two NEH laptops and a tablet for use in the village.
It seems that part of becoming an emerging democracy from a regime that does not really want to give up its power is a lot of sanctions on voting. One such sanction is something on biblical proportions; you must be in your home town or village to be eligible to vote.
Today my students had 30 minutes in which to teach a topic of their choice. One student is currently doing his final year university exams, which are a week long in Myanmar. He came to the practical class on his one day of rest from his exams. I am pleased by this commitment, however, the exam does mean that he has missed valuable class time last weekend. As expected, the students who attended all of the weekend sessions performed the best when it came to crunch time.
This was planned during our August Rakhine visit. It took a while to get up and running unfortunately. Small things such as the national election just got in the way of running the course! I started to teach on the second weekend of October.
Today I have been in Myanmar for exactly 4 months. I use the bus five days a week, twice a day. The very first bus I caught was ten days after my arrival in my second ever Asian country. The first being a brief time in Thailand.
Today was a treat for Myanmar government teachers. They had the day off of school on account of it being a full moon day. The teachers have to make up the missed day on the following Saturday, so it’s not completely playing truant, but it did mean that I was able to spend a day off duty with the wonderful group of ladies that I have been training.
At the monastic school where I trained my eleven delightful ladies, there are over 800 children. The monastery must rely on donations in order to keep paying teachers and feeding the children.
Today marks the final bus journey to the Thanlyin monastery school. I am proud of the progress of my 11 students. I know I will miss these ladies after today. I have grown very fond of all of them and they are my first class in this new country; therefore, they will always be special to me.
As mentioned, I did not want to give a final written assessment for teacher training. It seems to me to be a very practical thing, and it doesn’t much matter what you wrote on two sides of paper when faced with an unruly mob of thirty 6 year olds!
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