This morning I worked on the FAQs document. The questions
include: before travelling, medical, financial, orientation, workload, climate
and the environment. Some of these
questions might need extra information from the Lao and Cambodia offices if BABSEA
are presenting a combined front. The
document is in its third draft and copied to Muan on an email.
Later, I helped Muan to read some of her emails and to reply
to the gap year students.
In the afternoon, I prepared some homework for the
Wildflowers lesson, which will involve the women making a 3d home out of paper
cubes. They will write on the cubes four
windows, a front door and a roof and include words which balance out the words
associated with domesticated violence eg: threats and coercion – would be
written as support. This is due for the
next lesson for discussion and review. I
used 40 A4 sheets of paper for this task.
During lunch I shopped at the Hill Tribe shop on the main
road and bought some handicrafts.
Later, I watched Bomb Harvest, which is a documentary film
about how cluster bombs dominant the life of two communities some 40 years
after the “Secret War”.
Reflecting on the Wildflowers email from Kristen, it would
help her to plan the future lessons if she had further information on the legal
status of the Burmese women. For
example, would they be given asylum status and permitted to stay and work?
