Wednesday, June 13, 2007

Typical Africa

One of my students was out of school all last week because his father died. This is the third student who has lost a parent, while I've been teaching here.

When I graded exams for my 58 students in Form 2 I came across a paper from a student named Timothy. I have no idea who he is, apparently he joined last week. I still haven't met him. I actually know my kids' names now, and I still didn't notice the extra kid in my huge class.

I've been practicing saying the following sentence all day this morning.

tizasuwela inde Mangochi Private Lamulungu. (sp?, Tim, a little help?)
It means we are playing Mangochi PVT on Sunday. The Coca-Cola Trophy is back on!

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