Christmas time in India is not
like Christmas time at home. For a start back home when it's 2
degrees and snowing, it's 28 here all the time and we don't want to sleep with
blankets. As much as I thought I would quite enjoy the
heat, I miss the cold! I miss having to wear layers to keep warm and
having the heating on and wanting to drink hot drinks and seeing my
breath. The weather doesn't change and it's really strange. Is
it bad I just want a dull day? I want to wear a jumper without sweating
out my body weight.
It doesn't feel really Christmassy because we're not bombarded with Christmas adverts, lights, and music. But we're trying our best. We've decorated our room, made paper chains for the classrooms and we're constantly playing the Michael Buble Christmas album. But even with our advent calendars and tinsel, it's still not the same.
Decorating the classrooms is a health and safety hazard. It really is. The kids throw scissors around and I think one ate some glue. To get the paper chains on the wall someone has to stand on a bench, which is already unstable to sit on, balance and carefully stick the paper to the wall. I offered to do this to stop a child doing it but they insisited they would do it. So a couple of ninth standard boys spent five minutes cheating death. I maybe made it a little bit worse though. To stop the bench tipping, a couple of the younger kids were sitting on it. And one wee boy, Mugesh, was pretending to be a car. So I may have grabbe his arms, pretended he was cornering really fast and maybe made the bench tip slightly. I do feel bad but no one was injured! I walked into 10th standard one day to find a bench up on its end, and a boy called Kiran perched on the top sticking paper chains to the ceiling while his friend Praveen held on loosely with one hand. It was very interesting.
There's also a crib outside the office the now with some grass in it. (Honestly, we're more confused than anyone.) It was made by some of the tenth standard boys using some wood they'd collected from the woods they were using a knife, wirecutters and chopping the wood where five year olds were walking.
It doesn't feel really Christmassy because we're not bombarded with Christmas adverts, lights, and music. But we're trying our best. We've decorated our room, made paper chains for the classrooms and we're constantly playing the Michael Buble Christmas album. But even with our advent calendars and tinsel, it's still not the same.
Decorating the classrooms is a health and safety hazard. It really is. The kids throw scissors around and I think one ate some glue. To get the paper chains on the wall someone has to stand on a bench, which is already unstable to sit on, balance and carefully stick the paper to the wall. I offered to do this to stop a child doing it but they insisited they would do it. So a couple of ninth standard boys spent five minutes cheating death. I maybe made it a little bit worse though. To stop the bench tipping, a couple of the younger kids were sitting on it. And one wee boy, Mugesh, was pretending to be a car. So I may have grabbe his arms, pretended he was cornering really fast and maybe made the bench tip slightly. I do feel bad but no one was injured! I walked into 10th standard one day to find a bench up on its end, and a boy called Kiran perched on the top sticking paper chains to the ceiling while his friend Praveen held on loosely with one hand. It was very interesting.
There's also a crib outside the office the now with some grass in it. (Honestly, we're more confused than anyone.) It was made by some of the tenth standard boys using some wood they'd collected from the woods they were using a knife, wirecutters and chopping the wood where five year olds were walking.
I now can't wait to go away for Christmas. It might make it feel a bit more Christmassy. Because sitting around invigilating exams where the kids will talk anyway will not get you in the festive mood!
Also, this appeared the other day. We have no idea. So many questions.
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