A girl quickly cleans up the floor and throws the chairs on the tables before they all start to run in a circle. It is dancing lesson again. As every day at 14 o’ clock in S.C.A.O. II. After a quick warming up there follows some trainig and stretching. That is the point when suddendly […]
Today is International Women’s Day. In Cambodia all the schools close on this date. Our students told us that it is typical for the cambodian husband to make his wife (really) happy on this day. He cleans the house, cooks the food, washes the clothes, and they go somewhere to eat food together. And he […]
This Creative Friday was really creative. At SCAO1 every class was part of our big wall-project. We spent the whole day painting the wall. Not even the dark could stop us. The result is amazing. Really big thank you to Nadin and her brother for this great idea and for sponsoring the colours and paintbrushes. […]
Cambodian people don’t celebrate Christmas but I think most people have an idea what it is about and why all the western people are getting ready for it months before. Of course Buddhists don’t know what Christmas is, but still they are excited to wear Christmas hats and sing Christmas songs, probably Cambodian kids more […]
During the past years, volunteers at S.C.A.O. I have been staying and sleeping in the S.C.A.O. Center. Since the beginning of July, S.C.A.O. has opened a volunteer house, about a 10 minute bicycle-ride away from the school. This change happened due to two main reasons. Firstly, living in the Center was a great opportunity to […]
Two weeks ago, we arrived at SCAO. Lennart and Antonia asked us to reactivate the German class. We thought we had to start teaching German with the very basics. First we wanted to teach them how to introduce themselves, but to our amazement they were already skilled to do so. Thus, we had to improvise […]
’ve been in Cambodia working with Scoop and SCAO for almost two months. Time is absolutely flying by and I love every minute of it. My main role here is as an English teacher and I’m responsible for a beginner class and a more advanced grammar class. My days are mostly taken up with preparing for […]
I have been volunteering at SCAO for almost five months now and during the last few weeks a lot of volunteers left SCAO, especially long term volunteers. Seeing people leaving who basically arrived together with you or only a few weeks afterwards is a very strange feeling. You experienced together with them the first impressions of […]
We were warned in advance by students not to expect some of them in evening class because, ‘T’cher, comedy show in the pa’goda!’ Well in that case we were going too! No one wanted to miss out on the comedy roadshow featuring one of the nation’s beloved comedic actors Peakmi. Yet they attended class dutifully […]