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Tuesday 28th September 2009
OH CRAP IT....I overslept...well...I say overslept...what I mean is that I woke up at 5.45am rather than 5.10am...and off to the education office. Only the education office looked somewhat different this morning...maybe as the grounds had temporarily been turned into a livestock farm...8 big horned cows (2 with calves) 2 sheep and a herd of goats...my word...what a noise...mooing...bleeting...baaaaing...and I had to sit in the office and mark 91 English papers while this was going on! I was lucky it was only that many...most of the papers had been marked the day before...that is probably the most work I have done since I arrived here!!! Once the papers were marked I finished and printed the P6 mock exams as requested (several times by Francois!!!) I put them on his desk...and he went to leave without them...I gently reminded him that the paper were finished and on his desk for him (as he hadn’t even looked at them) when he picked them up and handed them to Alexis before walking out of the office, presumably for his lunch. At 12 it was time to head back to the house for lunch...on arrival I found the land lord on the veranda, just watching the builders work. Ruairi talked with him, and it turns out that what we thought was refurbishment for our guard, is in fact a whole new house FOR HIM!!!! While the guard has been moved permanently to the super small outhouse on the end...it is just one room and we are not sure what he is doing for a toilet...it would be awful if he had a pit latrine in his room!!! But then nothing would surprise me anymore! I spent the rest of the afternoon in the district office...won my ongoing battle with Vodafone...although I have an awful feeling they may have done something to my phone as I haven’t had any text messages on it!!! Rubbish!!!! Yet another hot shower...clean clean clean!!!! I love it...it is maybe the best invention in the whole entire world!!!!
OH CRAP IT....I overslept...well...I say overslept...what I mean is that I woke up at 5.45am rather than 5.10am...and off to the education office. Only the education office looked somewhat different this morning...maybe as the grounds had temporarily been turned into a livestock farm...8 big horned cows (2 with calves) 2 sheep and a herd of goats...my word...what a noise...mooing...bleeting...baaaaing...and I had to sit in the office and mark 91 English papers while this was going on! I was lucky it was only that many...most of the papers had been marked the day before...that is probably the most work I have done since I arrived here!!! Once the papers were marked I finished and printed the P6 mock exams as requested (several times by Francois!!!) I put them on his desk...and he went to leave without them...I gently reminded him that the paper were finished and on his desk for him (as he hadn’t even looked at them) when he picked them up and handed them to Alexis before walking out of the office, presumably for his lunch. At 12 it was time to head back to the house for lunch...on arrival I found the land lord on the veranda, just watching the builders work. Ruairi talked with him, and it turns out that what we thought was refurbishment for our guard, is in fact a whole new house FOR HIM!!!! While the guard has been moved permanently to the super small outhouse on the end...it is just one room and we are not sure what he is doing for a toilet...it would be awful if he had a pit latrine in his room!!! But then nothing would surprise me anymore! I spent the rest of the afternoon in the district office...won my ongoing battle with Vodafone...although I have an awful feeling they may have done something to my phone as I haven’t had any text messages on it!!! Rubbish!!!! Yet another hot shower...clean clean clean!!!! I love it...it is maybe the best invention in the whole entire world!!!!
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