Hot Volcanoes and Cool Volunteers

Yesterday's session at the centre was great. We split the kids up somewhat so the boys were in a group with two guy volunteers and less disruptive.Does it send the wrong message when we split up the boys and girls? I don't know but there were no skirmishes to break up yesterday when normally there'd be at least a couple.

Couple of cool things: The pair of 20something volunteers that have been with us for three weeks teamed up with the three teenage volunteers to make a plasticine, baking soda and vinegar volcano as we were doing plate tectonics with the kids. Great demo after the crossword, hangman and reading.

We had a group of new volunteers.
They work in drama full time. They came in and had the kids do tableaux related to tsunamis, volcanoes and quakes.

End note: quote from a first time volunteer (not from the drama grou). "some of my friends have said they want to bring their kids to Cambodia to see what it's like to be poor. They should just bring their kids here."

(Pix: Students in Cambodia)