I've tried to steer away from the 'Miss Honey' teaching approach this week and lay down some 'Miss Trunchball' rules - though I still find myself saying 'Because I'm being nice today, Simon Says one more chance', and my rules seem to consit of simply, 'hands up, sit down, watch and listen'. However I'm not sure if the swarms of nursery will ever settle. Being shut in a class with twenty-thirty four year olds didn't feel like such a prison sentence until I was rather stumped when one of the boys needed the bathroom and to my suprise we couldn't get out... so with a bit of toddler team effort we opened the door from the inside out. Because I also completely understand that running around with a chair on your head is sometimes more exhilarating than learning another fruit in English, Jade and I are teaming up - soon there'll be nothing more exciting than the colours of apples and oranges. It's difficult to hold the attention of so many tots without a word of Telugu. Baa Baa Black Sheep only lasts for so long, and the hockey cockey circle takes at least ten minutes to construct. With the two of us we hope to be able to take them out on the playground and Madam is looking for us to take fourth and fifth standard on a field trip - literally a field trip... to the fields! Which I'm secretly really looking forward too.
So many new things have become such a big part of our temporary everyday lives. Cramming into a tuk tuk and with four in the back - the drivers only mission to dodge people, cows, motorbikes, goats, chickens, bikes, pot holes, you name it. It goes against almost every UK law of wearing a seatbelt, having a speed limit and sticking to your side of the road! Our little adventures always seem to throw up new things to think about... many things to laugh about, and something to smile about.
:-) Here's a few photos from our past week... X
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