...important things like the fact that there is a Khmer massage place right next to the dormitory (cheap and not as painful as Chinese massage apparently) and Costa coffee has just opened its first branch in Cambodia, yippee.
Here's a picture of the grand opening...
Kristen recently held a movie night for International Women's Day (she showed a film called Frida) and all the girls enjoyed it. She's also run creative writing classes and and will be starting a politics and geography unit shortly. Better brush up on geography??!
Other Leadership Residents have helped the girls put together a Khmer cook book and even performances of Shakespeare (which helps with public speaking and presentation skills). Not sure I'm any good at any of that. Might have to read the cook book so I know what to do when I get to the food market though.
One Leadership Resident raised enough money to put together a library in each dormitory, complete with a catalogue system which sounds pretty amazing.
Leadership Seminars
Two Sundays a month, there is a Leadership
Seminar in the Teuk Thla dorm, where all 80 students from both dorms get
together. The purpose of the Leadership Seminar is to talk about profiles of great women leaders of the past, the
qualities that make a great leader, the special challenges that women have and
the history of Cambodia. It's in Khmer so the girls can follow it (I think we have Sunday off).
Facilities at the dormitoryThere is a computer room where I will teach (Kristen says it's nice and big) with about 8 computers, bookshelves, couches, a white board and a pretty big flatscreen TV with a DVD player. It sounds like a really good base for working individually with the girls and as a group.
