The ground is soggy, the place is hot and the mosquitos are
loving it!
The flooding from last week past and now the news is full
with who is to blame. Everyone moans at the government all over the world but
in Georgetown the moans are quite load and consistent. With corruption being a
big political party here, it is no wonder that the news quickly realised money
for flood protection wasn’t going in the right pockets. Now that the flood and
thick oozy mud that it left has washed away, it is only the mosquitos that are
staying. They can be so annoying sometimes.
This morning I was sat at work marking some papers and soon
found out that my knees were being eaten alive; four or five itchy bites on
each knee cap. They had gone straight through my trousers.
Marking is all school is about this week and possibly next.
Marking papers, invigilating exams and the students sit the papers then go home
early. Two weeks of this is such a waste of time. I have been keeping lessons
for the A-Levels, which goes against the grain of the school culture. They are
split into groups and they each deliver a session on one of the past topics.
This has gone down terribly with one or two students. The majority have just
got on with it but I had one student trying to persuade me to let them stay at
home to revise. Today a few students missed class so I made personal phone
calls to all of them to politely ask them to come to school tomorrow.
I feel such an ass sometimes and I know that this is the UK
and things might be different but there are right and wrong things in both
countries and I think I have got this call right.
Last night I brought India to Guyana and cooked up a coconut
fish curry. I went over-board with the hot peppers but thankfully the fish was
in such big chunks that they soaked up some heat.
Now to make some Chirstmas cards. They won’t get to England
in time but it is the thought that counts, right?
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