I can´t believe that at least one of my¨friends¨hasn´t noted my typos and spelling mistakes. Yes, I know there is a difference between ¨maron¨and ¨maroon¨ especially when it comes to flower color. Reading back through the blog entries, there are a few other dandy ones as well.
We tried Skype yesterday with Phil and Joan Long in Florida. Skype is the free computer to computer system anywhere in the world for free. The could hear us well, but we lost a little when they spoke to us. Hopefully, next week when internet is installed at the school, we can try this again with others.
The law suit thing in the states as compared to school liability here is a mind boggling situation. Kids have a mid day ¨break¨with no supervision on the playground. They have their own rules of order. Once in a while somebody gets ¨disciplined¨by the group, but it goes un-noticed by the staff. Hazardous elements are all about such as a wheel barrel that kids haul each other in and then dump one another out on the hard surface. The concept that the school is responsible for any little accident is not a part of the picture at all. There is no passing time between classes. Teachers move, not students. Because of a class running over a few minutes and another teacher leaving a bit early, classes are frequently unsupervised for 5 minutes. No one but us even notices.
For all that is NOT on a strict schedule here, the one thing that IS exact is the school bus which we ride along with the kids. If a passenger is not waiting by the curb, two toots of the horn and the driver pulls away.
One of these first days I MUST write about the ¨flash heater shower head¨. I have developed a special dance over this one.
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At least it wasn't a "moron" flower. We've become so dependent on spellcheck that the lack of it trips us up. Can you get a shot of kids dumping other kids out of a wheelbarrow during break time? I would like to post it in our lunchroom.
Marlene
Thank-you for bringing up the subject of spelling! I told Clayton the other day it was very difficult to let it alone:-) Possibly you had been in retirement too long from education and good to know you were there to teach english and not spelling! I have been amazed how beautiful a country you are in. The pictures are a welcome addition to the blog as it makes your world so much more real to us.
love,
LT
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