Taught the asrama kids "duck, duck, goose" and "Who stole the keys?" last night. Took them about 15 mins to suss out each game but had some fun in the end. It was form 1 I was taking and some of the boys are teensy tiny. There's one boy especially that I just have to laugh at- not in a bad way of course- he's just highly amusing. Like when he was chasing after someone around the circle, he was making a "zoooom" sound like a motorbike while holding out his arm like superman and his facial expression was just too funny. The piano seemed to be acting a little better than usual- think someone had attempted to fix it, unsuccessfully. It played ok (although completely out of tune) for a few pieces, then it rapidly deteriorated. Forgot to mention that during the weekend, I went to have a look at pianos at a piano salon I spotted on Gaya Street. Unfortunately they were brand spanking new at an extortionate price. So I'm gona have to go on the lookout for a second hand one. I managed to get the phone number of a man that could possible repair and tune the current piano so at least I'm getting somewhere. After playing about on the piano for a while, I headed for supper with the kids- milo and biscuits-mm. Then got an early night with the intention of going running this morning. Woke to a threateningly tingly throat. Not using it as an excuse or anything but decided to hold off on the run as I'm thinking the diving has done in my glands as well as my ears. I did the "Huge bad of worries" drama with the classes today and they were pretty good. Although I had a bit of a dilemma. One of the boys kept shouting out "Big Mumma" to one of the girls and various comments about her weight. I didn't quite catch what was going on for a while but realized that he was really picking on her in front of the entire class but was weird cos no one reacted as you would expect. Like they just saw it as a normal thing, so didn't really react at all to his comments. But the girl was obviously embarrassed and was trying to hide it. I was just shocked that no one thought what he was doing was wrong. Initially I told him to be quite, then when he repeated it I told him that he would have to leave the room if he didn't stop and listen to the girl's play (as he was interrupting the play at the same time), then finally once the girls play had ended and class was finished I confronted the student in front of the class. I asked him if he knew why I was angry with him and made him stand up and apologise to the individual girl, as well as her team. I didn't want to make the girl even more embarrassed by bringing it up in front of the whole class but I couldn't exactly let him get away with it. I told that class that I was shocked such behavior took place in the class- especially while the topic for today's class was bullying. The class seemed shocked that I was angry about it- more so the boy who had being calling her names. He genuinely did look very sorry and pretty scared, but I couldn't understand why the class looked a bit taken aback at me giving him in trouble since he was full on bullying her. Get the feeling it happens a lot in class and teacher's turn a blind eye. I didn't want to take it so far that I would tell a teacher though cause I knew he'd probably end up getting "disciplined" which involves being caned by a certain "discipline teacher" and I think my verbal warning was enough for just now- well hope so. I asked the girl after class if she wanted me to take it any further and she said thank you but I could just leave it. Later in the day I asked Judie about it and she said that of course it was right to discipline him and that in future I could mention her name and that'd scare them. My second class was with form 5 and was kinda interesting. After the drama, I took a quiz from mums "Lets Talk" magazine and discussed it with them. I asked them various questions like "If you are being followed by someone, do you a.run away as fast as you can, b.keep walking and pretend they are not there, or c.Turn round and face them." The correct answer in the book was a. but there was much debate over whether b. should have been correct. Anyway, a question that shocked me was "If you're mum or dad often hit you, should you- a. tell someone about it as soon as you can, b. allow it to happen or c. fight back." I was shocked yet interested that they all answered "b". In this country and culture, I don't think there is much help or support for situations involving domestic violence. The kids were aware of it but couldn't really tell me ways to stop it. Their English was perfect so there was no language barrier during the discussion. The image they put across was that violence from parent to child or parent to parent is tolerated here and they just put up with it. They are not informed in school or society that it is wrong. Yet I don't know what the rate of domestic violence is like here. It may be that it is not so much of an issue but I'm not sure. I didn't want to go into too much detail with them but they were willing to talk about it a bit. Tis a bit weird with from 5 cos they are the same age as me and they are really good in following instructions etc, just feels weird to telling them what to do. Turns out that form 5 also have exams coming up so next week I won't have any classes to teach. However, Aman and I are going to be busy making final plans for the deaf camp, adding a different competition to our GAP notice board and I need to start planning my Scottish week as I am going to start it at the end of March. Also looking forward to getting my nose into then "The Davinci Code" for the first time- shame on me for the delay.