Take 2: 100 happy days

"If at first you don't succeed, then skydiving is not the thing for you." Luckily, I'm not going to try skydiving any time soon. But today was the first day of my second year as a teacher. And given the stone in stomach feeling I had about it, I thought it might be a good time to retry the 100 happy…

A punch in the gut

"I am a bad person I know. So please dont tell me that I am bad. I am a wast person. I am not best at all in everything. I am samed my life" Asjed Ali Shaikh (Class 6, The Explorers) There are days where you know it's all gone wrong. It's clear from the…

Disproportional response

I needed some way of putting off doing my lesson plan on Israel for tomorrow, so I decided to faff around with the blog a bit. And looking back, I realised that this has become more and more of a "stream of consciousness", and far less a record of the insanity that is class. I'm…

There is no hurry…

"Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there someday."A A Milne Sometimes it seems like school drags on forever. At others, it feels like there just isn't enough time to get everything done. It is so easy to get caught up in the things that I didn't do, or couldn't do or…

Independence

I almost lost 3 kids today. Err, what, I hear you say! So yes, school was over, as was MUN class. And I had Sana, Albaz and Albiya to drop onto the bus from Sion to Kurla where they live.  A short walk, a trip we do every day, led us to the bus stop.…