On Friday, I began my teacher training at CEAL: The Center for Education, Arts and Literature in Sittwe.
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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 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!
After my first day with my new students, I realized that I would not be able to use the exact material that I had developed. Whilst this wasn’t a huge surprise to me, I was slightly taken aback at quite how low the level of English was.
Today I met Sandi who was tasked with getting me to work on the bus in one piece and on time. From the Dagon centre, which is a brief walk from my front door, we caught the number 48 bus to the Shwe Baho hospital, a 30 minute ride away.
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