After 4 solid days of rain last week this week has been incredibly hot, 30+ degrees and high humidity has left my sweating at the front of the class. There are four fans in the class rooms but all are over the students, our raised position means we are that much higher on the small podium, and next to the computer AND the projector. Of course if you are using the projector and computer then the students close the doors and windows so they can see the screen but with 50 bodies in the room it just makes it worse!
Today was over 30degrees and although there are three air conditioners in the classroom they are only switched on if it gets REALLY hot.
One of my students told me at lunch that they had rewired their AC to be functional even if the master switch was not on by wiring it into a different socket, clever buggers!
One of my students told me at lunch that they had rewired their AC to be functional even if the master switch was not on by wiring it into a different socket, clever buggers!
This afternoon mid class I heard a short beep from behind me and as I turned the class erupted into celebrations, the principal had decided to turn them on for a few hours, I had never seen a class so happy! The rest of the day was just about bearable!
Some students however are crazy and are STILL wearing their jumpers!
As i finished up my class I heard the crash of lightening that sounded the arrival of the common afternoon summer storms out here but luckily I met Chris who had been given an umbrella by a student, we made it back and after an hour the storm got pretty intense. This is when the power went out. Apparentely summer blackouts are very common and most places have huge generators that they can turn on if they need to, there is even a generator repair shop down the road and we often see huge generators the size of cars wizzing up and down the road being collected and delivered by fork lift.
Today however the generator was left off and so for an hour we had to sit and relax and watch the rain and listen to the lightening overhead, and I mean directly overhead. From our flat you can hear the screams of the students in the school with every lightening strike, but I think its awesome!
Mosquitoes everywhere now and its only going to get worse, going to ask about getting a net for my bed, otherwise we will have to leave the windows closed in the evening and use the AC, a less than idea solution, I can't even seem to find any repellant out here, but I suspect that is just the language problem!
Writing this in the comfy chair near my wide open windows in the thunder storm, (the rain here is nearly always vertical so very little gets in), and out my window listening to the rain and watching the lightening, very relaxing after a hard day. If only we didn't have to go out to get some food for tonight!
Pictures of the last three posts to come too....
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