This leaves me about 15 - 20 minutes to get up, shower, pack up my days teaching stuff and get down for a spot of breakfast before heading off in my Tuk Tuk with Geraldine to the school.
I can get ready in about 10 mins, as make-up just slides off your face immediately so it's pointless, and the light in the room is so bad that it is extremely flattering. I look absolutely gorgeous in my small dim mirror, but for the uneasy feeling that my eyebrows are raging out of control across my face without my knowledge. The truth is that I am so much more concerned with keeping clean and cool and vaguely hygenic, and most importantly avoiding further mosquito bites that facial hair seems to pale into insignificance. I wonder how long is the acceptable amount of time after going travelling that you can start to grow your armpit hair and allow your bikini line to look like John McCririck? One week? One month or do you have to have be a veteran traveller away about 9 months before you can acceptably walk around with what looks like a hampster in each armpit?
Anyhoo... today was my first day at school.
We had planned and discussed and reviewed lesson plans but it still doesn't quite prepare you, but it didnt matter.
I LOVED IT!!!!!
The Children were so lovely and they wanted to learn so much. The first class were older children, aged 10 - 17, all of different abilities, but also eager to learn. They stand at the beginning of each lesson and say "Good morning Teacher" in unison and are so keen to do whatever you ask. Our lesson plan worked well and I fell into my role quite easily.
The afternoon was more of a challenge and was basically spent in an exhausting maelstrom of coloured paper and piles of wriggly 5-7 year olds climbing all over the place. At the end of the lesson they all stood with their hands together and chorused "Goodbye teacher, Thank you teacher" which was so terribly humbling I could hardly bear it.
I shall post some photos of them all tomorrow...
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