Yes, surprise! Yet more festivals!

Sunday was the Hindu festival Holi, so while I was out in this obscure village (Little House on the Prairie land) cleaning up a Tamil school which was in a horrendous state, the boys of the village were out in their scruffy clothes covering each other in powder paints of every colour under the sun....driving past them at the end of the day was like driving through a science fiction - horror movie!

Monday was teachers day, and to my surprise I got more presents and cards than all the other teachers put together (including my favourite, 4 boxes of Ferrero Rocher), so they are all jealous!! :-) Still didn't stop me shouting at the kids though, nasty teacher that I am!!

And yes Monday is yet another public holiday, Wesak day, Buddha's birthday. So I'm off down to my favourite place - Melaka, for some chillin' out.

Right, off to write exam papers now, for end of term exams. Making them really nasty too. Well I like to push the kids. I just asked all my classes to re-write their essays they had handed in beacause they were so bad, and after remarking I was still giving marks of 1/10!!! I'm getting them (the 10 year olds) to write essays like I was writing for my chartership exams, brainstorms, plan, a clear arguement for and against and conclusions. Think I'll get them to do it once again tommorrow! mmmmmmmm