Dydd Gwyl Dewi Hapus!
Today, I woke up, put on my Welsh shirt and went out to work.
My team mates have been aware of St David's day for the last few days while I've been tracking down my ingredients. And there's also been some interesting discussion about Wales and the UK while I've been out here...
Also Khmer people generally have no idea that the UK is more than one country. So it's been fun educating some of them about it. Channa asks me lots of questions now and she has learned a couple of words in welsh.
The morning was pretty productive. I've been working on a CV resource which is essentially a small CV with tips as annotations which summarises what we've been teaching in our CV sessions. I finished that this morning, and this week I've had the subteam role of Finance, so I did some of the Finance forms, and then I did some M&E work for my subcommittee role. After that it was basically lunch time - Alex and I got bread and meat from across the road, with a lot of chilli sauce. Very nice.
After that, we had a session at Prey Moul this afternoon, so we got tuk tuks out there. Today Tim joined us from the media subcommittee to take some action shots for the video they are making about our cycle, so it was a bit tight. 6 people in a tuk tuk is not the most uncomfortable.
But it was a good session! 4 people instead of 6 this week - its festival season - but they are a really nice group. They taught us a Khmer game, similar to duck duck goose - very entertaining. They stayed very engaged in what we were doing in the session and they speak a little English.
Tim said it was nice to see the way a different team worked and what kind of methods we use to teach the information we're sharing. We feel we have to find lots of different ways, because a 2 hour session on CVs would be quite dry otherwise. Tomorrow we start our third week of sessions, which is essentially more specific CV and cover letter information.
After that we went back to the office and I got to speak to mum for a bit before she went out to the morning service, which was nice. We played some group games to finish the work day off. Zaynab had some flour left over from pancakes so we picked it up on the way home, and then it was time to make welshcakes!
Here are some photos:
They taste ok! They are very crumbly. The rice flour has no gluten so they don't hold together very well. Also I had to work without any measurements and guess and use a cup to try and get the proportions well. And the butter was more like margarine and it had weird flavourings added. But they taste decent and they look right. So I'm pretty pleased.
Channa was kind of bemused by the whole thing. She took lots of pictures of me. I'm not sure she was convinced I'd be able to make anything...
But yeah. Decent.
After that I managed to speak to Joy for a bit, which was so nice.
It's still pretty difficult on Sundays. Because our work week is structured so differently, Sunday has become Wednesday. So on one hand I'm in the middle of my work week, and on the other hand I know in my heart that its Sunday and I'd much rather be doing other things. I did manage to read a lot today at some points. But it's still hard. That's one of the most difficult things about this project I'd say - especially because no one else thinks about it.
Other than that, things are pretty positive just now. Thank you to all of you that are reading these posts and praying for me.
Dydd gwyl Dewi Hapus Mol!
ReplyDeleteGood effort all round, they look pretty good xxx
They were ok! I actually took a load into the office on Monday and got some good feedback!
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