The wife and kids are back home from their holiday tour of Cambodia, and I was surprised with a curry sapling, provider of much needed curry leaves.
🥵 Mobile Hive Office Is Also A Dry Sauna
With the return of the family comes my 6 days a week commute to the public school 30 minutes away down the mountain, with a one-hour return trip that is mostly an uphill slow climb. I am getting more and more accustomed to my diesel-saving technique of setting up a mobile Hive office near the school inside my tuk-tuk. From 7am to 11am I Hive in a confined space, and although far from ideal, it's easier on my back and body than returning home only to go back to school a few hours after arriving. At around 10am it gets so hot that my clothes get drenched with sweat and my iPhone starts to malfunction.
👩🏫 A "School" Next Door
Our neighbor recently decided to start "teaching" in the afternoon after the kids have returned from public school. I placed quotes around school and teacher because it's actually just the interior of her drink shop with whiteboard on the wall, and teaching is actually just the kids copying stuff from the whiteboard, sometimes as much as 30 minutes spent just copying information.
In most other countries, a handout would be given to the students so that precious class time could be spent learning instead of copying information. After 12+ years of working on and off as a teacher here myself, I've learned that 70% to 80% of time spent in a Khmer classroom is dedicated towards copying information into a notebook that is written on the whiteboard by the teacher. This usually leaves the teacher free to focus on their side hustle and/or play some Candy Crush while students are busy, and also accounts for why Cambodian university graduates globally rank almost dead last in critical thinking skills.
🕵️ Daily Lice Check
A typical sight each day is the good ole' lice check. This is still a common problem in Cambodian public schools, especially because 2-3 students often share one desk, you can imagine heads touch quite often. If we don't perform daily checks, the lice can get established, and then it's exponentially harder to get rid of them. Also in the above shot are some of the other plants my wife brought back from her travels, but the curry tree was the only thing I was excited about.
Sorry I haven't been engaging much lately, I've also found very little time to post despite being a full-time Hiver. Some of us have major life goals with a high bar, but for many months my goal has simply been to find time to post 7 days a week. It seems an impossible dream, and if I read and engaged with the amount of posts I'd like to each day, I'd never find time to post at all, so it's obvious I still have to make some life changes. Well, at least now I got a supply of curry leaves for many rasams and sambars.
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