In the
meantime I have changed my schedule quite a lot. After I mentioned that it’d
also be interested in teaching science and general knowledge, they asked me
whether I could only take those classes instead of English as they’d really
need more teachers in these fields. So
now I’ll once again start with some observation in my new classes and then go
on with preparing the lessons together with their Burmese teachers or on my
own. Besides that, I had my first lesson in the so-called teacher-class, where
some Burmese teachers can learn and improve their English. In the beginning I
was a little bit nervous about the thought of teaching teachers, but it’d say
that the first lesson went quite well and they are a really nice and easy-going
group. Some of them are even my age!
A few days
ago, a Czech girl, Dorotka, moved into the room next to mine and now she’s also teaching
here at the PDO. Using my water kettle we’ve already prepared some surprisingly
tasty instant noodles (with partly undefinable pieces of dried meat in it)
twice in the evenings and made use of the terrace on the roof top of our
dormitory. Up there, you wouldn’t believe you are in the second biggest city of
Myanmar and together with the nice, cooling breeze it almost feels like a
summers-night in Italy – if I just hadn’t chosen those incredibly spicy
noodles!
On Sunday
we rented bikes and started a sightseeing tour through town. Feeling quite cool
on our vehicles we quickly arrived at the area of the old palace (where we had
to pay some really high entrance fees) and had a look into some of the houses
of the old king’s 50 wives. Afterwards tried to find a flower-market (but only
saw one man selling some green plants) and took a rest at an incredibly cheesy,
pink church. After the sunset at the riverside, the streets started to get
really crowded and it wasn’t that much fun anymore to be on a street without
any lights. But eventually we arrived at our supermarket and (feeling horribly
sticky and dirty because of the streets and all the traffic) enjoyed some delicious
ice cream there.
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