I'm leaving a comment here, not knowing if you ever return to this blog!
I haven't had time to read it properly, but just a quick glance has already brought memories flooding back ... not of Thailand, of course, but of life in a developing country.
Your Khmer Rouge post reminded me SO much of what I saw in Uganda during its civil war.
Thanks for sharing this blog with me. I'm going to read it with attention over the next few weeks.
I come back just occasionally, and it's set up to send comments to my email so I know if there has been a comment made.
Cambodia was heart wrenching. I had a woman ask me quite seriously if I wanted to buy her baby. If you were in Uganda at that time I can quite understand why rubbish sorting drops down the list of life irritations...
Thailand was interesting, very different from China. In China my students were mostly from the countryside - and some from really poor families. Uni fees were cheaper then, but still there were a few who seemed to survive on air. The task there was to get their English as good as possible to enable them to have life chances despite many of them not having the connections that facilitate such things.
In Thailand I was teaching very privileged, mostly Thai students at an interntational (psuedo international) school. The task there was to get them to analyse and critique and have compassion - to understand that being rich has responsibilities... They had no idea about Cambodia and the Khmer Rouge... hard to believe.
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I'm leaving a comment here, not knowing if you ever return to this blog!
I haven't had time to read it properly, but just a quick glance has already brought memories flooding back ... not of Thailand, of course, but of life in a developing country.
Your Khmer Rouge post reminded me SO much of what I saw in Uganda during its civil war.
Thanks for sharing this blog with me. I'm going to read it with attention over the next few weeks.
I come back just occasionally, and it's set up to send comments to my email so I know if there has been a comment made.
Cambodia was heart wrenching. I had a woman ask me quite seriously if I wanted to buy her baby. If you were in Uganda at that time I can quite understand why rubbish sorting drops down the list of life irritations...
Thailand was interesting, very different from China. In China my students were mostly from the countryside - and some from really poor families. Uni fees were cheaper then, but still there were a few who seemed to survive on air. The task there was to get their English as good as possible to enable them to have life chances despite many of them not having the connections that facilitate such things.
In Thailand I was teaching very privileged, mostly Thai students at an interntational (psuedo international) school. The task there was to get them to analyse and critique and have compassion - to understand that being rich has responsibilities...
They had no idea about Cambodia and the Khmer Rouge... hard to believe.
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