We’ve had to start rationing toilet paper. We finished the two rolls we brought with us
so we had to go and buy and some but we’re not sure how often we’ll be able to
buy it and they only come in packs of 4.
It’s not fun having to remember “two sheets does plenty” every time you
go to the toilet.
We’ve just finished our first week properly teaching and
it’s one of the hardest things. It
really is so difficult especially when all the kids are at different levels and
we’re still not really sure what we’re teaching. I’ve been in the nursery/kindergarten most of
the time and that’s been quite good. The
kids in there are so cute. Some of them
are barely four, and often they just get tired and fall asleep in the middle of
class and this must be a common thing because the teachers seem to accept
it. The really hard thing about the wee
kids is that I can hardly understand them, even when they are speaking
English. They are all so quiet when they
speak to me, and they just say a few words.
It’s impossible to understand them.
But it’s really good to teach them because you can just act out lots of
things. I’ve been doing animals and
trying to find actions of whale and camel have proved very difficult. Monkey and dog less so. One of the wee boys just couldn’t say the
word turtle, he kept saying “tursul” it was the cutest thing ever. And one of the wee girls fell asleep and then
fell off her chair and had no idea what had just happened. It was the funniest thing I’ve seen since I
got here.
Because some of the other teachers just aren’t around all
the time, me and Sarah have been used almost as cover teachers. Which is really hard because we have no idea
what we’re meant to be teaching. I’ve
now taught 1st, 2nd and 3rd Standard and
basically just winged it. It was
impossible to know what to teach them and Sarah was really struggling as
well. Discipline is a real problem here. The kids are so badly behaved and they just
refuse to listen to the simplest instructions which they already know. They are worse than some of the kids back
home who now seem like angels.
The kids at the school are lovely when you’re not
teaching them. Everyone wants to see hi
or good morning to us every time we see them.
And they all smile and wave at us when they see us. And they really do just stare. I get self-conscious every time they do it
but I know it’s just because we’re so different and we’re really interesting.
We’ve driven to school in a rickshaw a couple of times
and it’s amazing. And I’ve discovered
it’s possible to fit 6 people (not including the driver) in one. Even if a child was standing up. It’s all really interesting and everyone
always seems really amazed that we don’t have things like rickshaws or lizards
or cows in the street. And we’ve seen
some monkeys! They really do just sit about in the street and no one bats an
eyelid but me and Sarah just freak out every time we see one. It’s amazing.
On the telly downstairs it seems to constantly be either
Doraemon (some children’s programme) or Bible TV. We would really like a shot of the remote at
some point..
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