First Day at the Rural School

A Picture paints a thousand words....

But just in case this one doesnt...

If I had to find a word that would aptly descripe today it would be a "Long Drop"

This is the epitomy of what I experienced and am likely to experience for the rest of my practical teaching.

To say that resources are scarce, is a gross understatement and that is just wrt what the average person would take for granted, like a toilet, toilet paper, running water, etc.

And I havent even begun on the classrooms, textbooks(or lack there of), library (hmmm, if that is what you call a locked room with a few unused books).

Being a microbiologist does not help in this situation where the abultions are breeding grounds for all sorts of microorgamisms and then there is the lack of water so there is NO personal hygiene. I felt like I was being sucked to an invisable abyss of microorganism hell, where they infest us while we remain oblivious.

The studies done on escalators and the underground tubes have nothing on what they would find here. Here they would probably find a whole population of new and varied mutated species.

Okay so I admit my imagination might have run away with me somewhat here, but the reality of it all is that it is a very unhygenic environment which proves to be an excellent vehicle for the transmittion of microbes and diseases.

Getting that out the way, the staff and students were very friendly, the assembly was interesting and personally I found it slightly moving with the principle saying that excuses will not set you free, your future is in your hands and you make of it what you will. Dont blame drugs or the fact you dont have parents or no money.

You can also see he cares about the students.

On the organisation side of things.... there was no organisation. We had to try work out our own timetables based on our subjects and choose certain classes which didnt clash but we could not jump from one to the next anyway so instead of getting exposure of grade 10, 11 and 12 - I am now stuck with 2 Grade 11 classes for life science and physical science - 11J & 11P.

Oh my will have to continue this tomorrow - it is past midnight and I have an early moring as well as a teething baby.....