Today, Ponheary and I took the tuk-tuk to Knar School, which was about an hour away by tuk-tuk. Ponheary came with me today to give me the story behind the school and to help out, as it's election time in the country and school is suppose to be out until Wed or Thursday. Since we had organized this ahead of time, we were able to get 25 kids in the kindergarten class. It is definitely a big plus that I know Khmer as the kids don't know English. They don't learn it here until about 5th grade. We did a few exercises with colors. How to say them in Khmer and English and from there we did some finger painting! Some kids went right into it and others were a bit shy. I had to show them how to do it. We also made hand prints with the paint, which I think the kids enjoyed. They all had their little own way of doing it; some with dots, others by smearing, and some actually drew hearts and flowers.
Afterwards, we played a game of hot potato, monkey in the middle, and human tug a war.I'd like to think it was a successful first day and I really enjoyed myself. I even saw a few kids wearing TOMS! And it's true, most kids here were running around with no shoes on so it was nice to see the TOMS story in reality.
Check out these happy kids:)
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