Day 7 Wednesday

Today was a day of taking the team right out of their comfort zone. We started a programme that will take the same format for the next three days. In the morning we went to the church's building. Andrew and Paul held a leadership training session with two of the Khmer leaders - Polly who is a student currently taking 2 degree's and holding down a part time job, and Savath who works 35 hours for the church and also has a part time job teaching English. Alison led a teaching English session with half a dozen or so locals who come most days for English practice. Garry oversaw a session of the computer club with again half a dozen locals who call in most days to improve their computer skills. The afternoon was time for a rest then in the evening we started an outreach programme. The church has invited local university students to spend three evenings attending "classes" run by us! There was a great turnout with between 30 & 40 students many of whom were at a church event for the first time. After a couple of ice breaker games - they love playing games we started the sessions. The classes were each an hour long with three running concurrently over the first hour and the rest during the second and consisted of: Photography - Garry, How to be a gr8 teacher - Mike and Alison, Healthy lifestyle - Hannah and Ha-Nah, Relationships - Andrew and English conversation - Alison. Amazingly enough we all managed to run a one hour session that the students enjoyed and seemed to understand!