so here's a typical day in my Indian life! List format, of course.
7.15AM: Alarm goes off. Press snooze at 5 minute intervals.
8.45: Get up, wash myself in outhouse.
9.15-11.00: Joel picks me up on't motorbike. School starting time is 8.45.
9.00-12.40: Look at timetable and largely ignore. Wander round school high-fiveing children, sometimes stopping to pick up, swing around and put down based on strength of request and size of child.
NB: on a Wednesday and Friday the sports master Dalroy is in during these hours. So I sit and listen to him talk about his career in Indian football whilst he flirts with every single one of the teachers from his chair and points a stick at the children barking instructions. He's my idol.
12.40: Lunch. Rice.
1.20-3.30: Knackered. The kids aren't concentrating anymore, neither am I. More high fives and then the boys in the first standard maths class usually have a fight over a pencil which ends in tears all round. I ignore this because boys don't cry.
3.30-close: occasionally take the bus home. Health and safety rules out of the window, kids are piled in there like you would pile a dishwasher. internet,food,bed.
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