As mentioned before the house is quite old and it is a six bedroom house with and upstairs and downstairs living area which are the classrooms, the kitchen has been converted to an office and the kitchen is outside under the side balcony. The kitchen area is really the only area that the teachers can meet although because of the long hours we don't have much time to get together. Really other than weekends and the nightly meeting at 9.30 we are never in the same place.
Rata is the office administrator and like all administrators the world over he is very protective of his territory, no one is to touch the photocopier or his computer. He lives in the house and is on duty 24 hours a day and the poor thing tries to escape to his bedroom to get away from the bossy women in his world.
Dara is Mel's security guard while Mel's husband Doug is away overseas at work but Doug is at home now until November so Dara is helping translate in the classroom. He very nice and his wife, Chuneang works as our cook and cleans the school, her English is not very good and we have interesting conversations at meal preparation time trying to work out what we are eating. They have a lovely little three year old daughter.
Mel has 3 children which I just met a few minutes ago for the first time. They are very confident young people and are fluent in both languages, the two girls go to a special school and love it. Lauchlin is only three but is not well at the moment so I am sure that we have not met the real boy yet.
Doug, I have only seen very briefly but he and Mel certainly share the same dreams for the school and Cambodia.
The food is certainly very different, Chuneang tries very hard to combine both Western and Cambodian cooking. Last night we were to have home made tomato soup with crusty bread but ended up with very thick tomato sauce with pasta!! I am having trouble with the evening meal as I don't finish until 9.30pm and then try to sit down to eat. Have to work something out.
I am very familiar with the local fruit of course and we eat a lot of dragon fruit,bananas and mangoes. It is the same as home the apples, oranges etc are very dear. I am not missing meat yet but I really hate getting pumpkin in every meal. Urk.
Rata is the office administrator and like all administrators the world over he is very protective of his territory, no one is to touch the photocopier or his computer. He lives in the house and is on duty 24 hours a day and the poor thing tries to escape to his bedroom to get away from the bossy women in his world.
Dara is Mel's security guard while Mel's husband Doug is away overseas at work but Doug is at home now until November so Dara is helping translate in the classroom. He very nice and his wife, Chuneang works as our cook and cleans the school, her English is not very good and we have interesting conversations at meal preparation time trying to work out what we are eating. They have a lovely little three year old daughter.
Mel has 3 children which I just met a few minutes ago for the first time. They are very confident young people and are fluent in both languages, the two girls go to a special school and love it. Lauchlin is only three but is not well at the moment so I am sure that we have not met the real boy yet.
Doug, I have only seen very briefly but he and Mel certainly share the same dreams for the school and Cambodia.
The food is certainly very different, Chuneang tries very hard to combine both Western and Cambodian cooking. Last night we were to have home made tomato soup with crusty bread but ended up with very thick tomato sauce with pasta!! I am having trouble with the evening meal as I don't finish until 9.30pm and then try to sit down to eat. Have to work something out.
I am very familiar with the local fruit of course and we eat a lot of dragon fruit,bananas and mangoes. It is the same as home the apples, oranges etc are very dear. I am not missing meat yet but I really hate getting pumpkin in every meal. Urk.
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