August 2nd, 2022
Fire Hose day 😂 Monday Aug 1st part II
Apologies for the delay in posting about how Monday went!
Grab app not set up like I thought 🤦🏻♀️ So I Caught a Tuktuk to school! Narrow little lane….he gave me his number so I can call him ANYTIME apparently. I’m sure that’s the case because I gave him 10,000 riel for a ride that would’ve cost 4300 riel if I had used grab. But just to clarify that’s $2.50 USD instead of $1.10. Still within my budget 😉 And I was feeling generous.
There is this phrase that gets used frequently during orientations to new jobs, the amount of information you are presented with can feel like getting sprayed with a fire hose. I can confirm this. I actually ditched out at 2 PM as I didn’t have a computer yet, and I need to get back to Nichol. He was officially spending his first day alone in at least three years (maybe more). He still wasn’t able to walk after the flight and MY jet leg was real. So I took the hardcopies of curriculum that I could and walked back to hotel to be with him.
The same Mural that was on the wall when I visited in 2019 is still here. I sense that not much has changed in many schools over the last 2 1/2 years here as most have been primarily closed due to Covid. I need to get a pic of me back in front of it to compare to the one I took in 2019, but it was fun to see that the message lives on. Here’s my teacher desk and my door.
It’s not really my teacher desk because it has all the things from the teacher that I’m covering for. I’m not going to move any of her stuff I’ll just live in her world, it’s OK. But anyways you can have a glimpse of what it’s like. I met my grade level teaching partner, Brandie, and my Khmer classroom teaching partner, Makara. I can tell that both are absolutely amazing, so kind and helpful. We are going to make a great team!!
Some pics of school lunch (Yessssss, that’s carrot soup! So delicious!) and pumpkin in my salad! My obsession with pumpkin is being fed!
I was lucky enough to get to sit at the cool kids table for lunch! Landon actually really is a happy guy, not sure why he makes these faces 🤦🏻♀️ I am going to work with him on this! I however look sweaty and exhausted. But that was accurate. So it is what it is 😂
TTFN❤️
