This week heralded in the long-awaited Water Festival. Also celebrated in Thailand, this is one of those religious festivals that has become a byword for lavish, hedonistic party time.
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In the winter, the trees bloom white and yellow flowers. As a kid, I loved fighting, playing football and cane ball, and jumping down from the flower trees with my friends. Everyday, the headmaster punished us by hitting us with a long cane on our palms or backs. Sometimes, we got bruised and injured, but we still never lost our smiles.
When we discussed what my mum wanted to visit in Myanmar, I listed the usual tourist sights: Shwedagon, Bagan, Mandalay, and the Golden Rock teetering on a seemingly gravity-defying point. However, my mother wanted to get a feel for the Myanmar that I knew and worked with. So, we went to Yangon and to Sittwe.
The head monk asks again what we can do to improve the quality of teaching in the village. I have to give it to him that he is determined and dogged with his agenda. Unfortunately, where there is no motivation, there is no chance of improvement.
With the fresh morning air, I woke up earlier this morning. I prepared breakfast for my elder sister and me. Actually, it was cooler in the early morning than I thought it would be.
“You are not an early bird,” Teacher Chloe said to describe my being late out of bed in the mornings while in the village. As she said, I don’t normally wake up early mornings. But mid-February I woke up at 7:27 am with worries of being late for an appointment.
Congratulations to Thein Min Swe on his acceptance to the Master of Public Health program at the Harvard Chan School!
I decided that I should incorporate training wherever possible by asking the teachers to think critically about how they could use or adapt the activities in their own classrooms. This critical thinking didn’t need to be done in English and therefore was more of an exercise in implementing active learning within the classroom than a test of knowledge.
A lot of monks teach in Myanmar; they typically have more education than lay people and they are more able to provide for those less fortunate than themselves. As we have mentioned; this is a country which gives the highest percentage of its income to charity. The charity being the thousands of monks (and to a lesser extent, nuns) in the country.
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