School Days

November 5, 2009

Things are going pretty good with us. School has been flying by now. We didn't have school on Monday because of All Saints Day. Becky has giving her first test yesterday and today. The kids were complaining that it was too hard and that they didn't have enough time. She got talked to by her homologue because the kids complained so much. When she showed the test to our homologues, they called the kids idiots and told her not to listen to them. They said that she should give them two hours to take the test just so that they will complain less, even though it won't help them. The kids are horrible cheaters too. Becky caught six kids cheating and they got zeros on their tests. They are so bad that when she was collecting tests she found the work of one kid under his bench mate's test, and he was copying the work
I haven't given a test yet but am planning one in two weeks. The kids keep asking what the coefficient is for my class. The coefficient decides how much a class will affect your overall grade and my class doesn't have one. So I decided that you need to pass my class to get into the second trimester. They think that it is some kind of joke or that the Censureur won't let me kick them out and the end of the trimester. What they don't know is that he was all for letting me take only the top 25 students after the first trimester.
I had to close my lab this week because the voltage regulator shorted and I can't run the lab on just one regulator. So now I'm waiting for the Intendant to buy me a new one. My server is still down and I'm waiting for the tech to come to school to look at it. The repair process may take a while to get done, but hopefully sometime around New Years I'll have my server back.
We are still waiting on running water. I talked with the guy at the company again and he said that he is waiting on a truck. The truck should be here in a couple of weeks. I'm not too hopeful about having water in a couple of weeks either. Maybe by June we'll have running water. I would really love it for April but that may be asking too much.
We put in our garden on our day off. I have realized why the Burkinabe are so strong. It was hard to break up enough ground just to fill the boxes. I don't relish the idea of having to dig out the rest of the garden for when we transfer things into the ground.
Surreal is a little terror now. She is digging in things that she shouldn't be. Becky gets just a little peeved with her. Becky has given up on Flamboyant trees for the moment after Surreal dug up the same spot six times. She doesn't dig it up right away either, she waits till it grows just little so that it is more fun. Surreal gives Becky false hope that her tree will make it this time then she digs it out of her with her tiny little paws. Surreal can now sit and shake, which amazes our neighbor when she comes over. We are still working on down and nice.