Volunteering day 5, 6 & 7

Monday morning I was told I'd be testing the kids on their latest term of learning. I got given a little desk outside, and had a set of questions, vocab and readings to ask them on. I got 5 minutes with each kid, with another teacher filming the whole thing to send to their parents. Some kids them looked like deer in headlights when I asked the most simple question like what their name was. Some absolutely flew through the tests, others needed a lot of prompting and one kid did not understand what was going on and just repeated every question I asked him bless.
The kids were starting to recognise me which was so cute, there was a girl from each session that'd run over and give me a big hug when they saw me, and would sit in the break room with me between lessons. There was a 6 year old girl who had amazing English, so we'd hang out at breaks and I'd teach her clapping songs I remember from primary school. By the end of the 3 days we had nailed high-lo-picolo.
I wish I could've stayed longer! I would have really loved to go help out in the schools in the villages, but I only have 30 days on my visa and there are still some things (like Angkor Wat) I want to do in Cambodia.
Was a really lovely experience, and seeing what amazing work this organisation was doing and how hard everyone worked was really inspiring.
I had one last meal with Sar, Paul and the boys on Wednesday evening before getting a tuk tuk to a hostel in Siem ReapRead more