On the coat tail of tourists.

I will not talk about how the teaching went today, a minor riot just about avoided  - I get on very well with the kids, but today the little ones realised that the class teacher was out of the room and suddenly lost focus and could I get it back, yes but it took 5 minutes and by then class was over and the kids had lost the chance for a game with the balloon that had caused the problem in the first place.  But , almost as per usual it has been an unusual day today. There is a group of mature (i.e. maybe some 20 years older than me) Canadians and Americans staying at the Ashu and as part of their trip I knew that they were coming to the school but my colleagues were down too and the Director, so suddenly the school was packed with people. I had asked that tourists please talk with the kids, and they were great, one did some magic for them and I asked the children to talk with the visitors to practice, "where are you from?" and "what's your name?" The kids were stars and were brave enough to ask and two of them even sang beautifully so it was a very positive occasion.

        

American and Canadian visitors 

In the afternoon the tourists local guide had arranged for them to see a   tradition Kyrgyz horse competition as two teams put a beheaded ram in   a goal.  Actually it was amazingly tough, apparently it was a local derby   and they really fought and because it took place after school time we       were able to drop in and watch the end of the match and have a little horse ride before my colleagues headed back to Biskek.