Luxurious Working Conditions

Students arriving to class. It filled up.

Today was the first class at the Teacher's Training College. It's a massive campus by local standards with multiple buildings and lots of students. By "students", I mean both kids and prospective teachers. They get hands-on experience because it doubles as a primary school for local kids. 

The first day was all about discovery. I wasn't sure what level of experience I would be dealing with, nor did I know what subjects would be the most desired. It didn't take long to figure out most were basic computer users who had familiarity with getting around Windows and making a few documents in Word. That's a good base of learning, so we jumped right into Excel. That's really quite the complicated program if you have never used it, so we started simple.

This was also the first time I taught a class in an air conditioned room or with a projector. It was a great feeling to know that the lessons will ripple through to kids in the long run. Plus, it's great to see improving technical and living conditions.

Switching gears completely, we ate at an Austrian restaurant last night. The owner is from Vienna and extremely friendly. He had great suggestions and the food was incredible. In many regional restaurants you can tell there's a very Cambodian flair to the food. I think they often have to substitute some flavors when they don't have the right ingredients. I doubt they did that at Schnitzel Wirtin, since the flavors were spot on.