Got to get a J.O.B.......you know the rest

Fulltime work you say?

It had to happen, so im now the IT teacher in an International school in Cambodia.

Nisc is a school of about 320 kids ranging from 3 to 18 years. It serves the expat and rich khmer communities.




My room has 25 computers running Windows Vista, a data projector and two functioning UPS supplies...... what that means is that when the garment factories down the road from us come back online after lunch there are rolling power outages, and without a UPS for each computer the kids lose all their work!




Wicked.

The politics about replacing these vital pieces of equipment and the ongoing battle to upgrade our power/internet supply is part and parcel of working and living in Cambodia.






So Im teaching IT to kids..... no problems there you would think?!



Well, its not that simple, my classes can be 24 - 11 year olds or 15- 3 year olds.



15 - 3 year olds is like herding cats, between the cacophinic calls of TEACHERTEACHERTEACHERTEACHERTEACHER to the crying children who have got scared by either A) windows crashing, B) the chair moving C) Their picture looking strange and are now crying inconsolably its one exciting teaching block!







Payday is a forthnight away so im living on scraps and looking at advancing some pay to see the week out (ahhh, its a cushy life as an expat! unlike the new teachers who get 500$ a month towards their living costs i as a "local hire"get nada) picture me darkly muttering that last line and you have the scene.



If i sound like im whining, im not just venting.

I will try out the slidesow gadget on the side of my blog to add more pics to explain why i choose to live and work in Cambodia.

The 3P's
The people
The place
The partner

I hope the sms sender works and if you like my blog you txt me any ideas.

Final thought for the blog

(Ahh the interweb, what doesnt it know? it certainly answered all of my questions about wang enhancement) courtesy of Homer ( no not the Iliad guy, the other one!) lol