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What a week this has been?
My Monday, Wednesday and Friday classes have been merged
into one session for 8.30 to 10.15 and a whole new batch of
students arrived for the second session 10.30 to 12.00.
These new students have no knowledge of English therefore I
have to start them from the beginning. Pandemonium ensued as
22 arrived and we couldn’t fit them into the small
classroom. The noise was horrendous. Fortunately Welma, the
manageress, withdrew 8 and sanity and relative peace
returned. They are another great bunch and very willing to
learn – and doing well after 3 days. Sayni, another
volunteer, will be taking over these classes when I leave in
three weeks and she came with me on Friday for an induction
session and was a great help.
I am having such a fun week
as well. On Monday
a board fell off the wall in my classroom and smashed my new
glasses, at least the frames. I went to the large shopping
mall and was able to get new frames and see again.
I returned by way of a very steep short one
way hill. As cars
pour around the corner to ascend the hill I correctly looked
right to check and stepped out into the road and WHAM. I
though a bus had hit me. I fell to the ground with blood
pouring from my knee and arm and a severe pain in my chest.
I could hardly draw a breath. It was a cyclist speeding down
the hill the wrong
way.
He got back on and went on at ME
when it was clearly his fault. He just left me bleeding and
stunned and cycled off. A guy from a nearby garage kindly
hosed me down (literally) and I got a taxi back to home
base. Guess what? My new glasses were again missing and
probably at the scene of the accident. Vinny kindly
administered first aid and then drove me back to the scene
and we found them in the kerb.
My knee and arm have
already healed nicely and the pain in my chest has gone.
That’s not all. Next day I
was sitting on the beach minding my own business - hat on -
glasses on and reading a book when WHAM, I received a heavy
blow to the head. Hat came off. Glasses came off. I just
could not believe it. I thought someone had thrown a coconut
at me. It was one of those hard balls from the beach game
that is very fast and furious. It’s like a squash ball but
bigger and harder. No damage done and glasses OK.
TGIF again and looking
forward to a restful and hopefully an uneventful weekend –
but you never know with me. Watch this space. |