Interesting developments.

It is raining and a bit miserable still maybe this is how spring is here, life in the clouds, when they lift, nice sunshine, when they lower, rain. But otherwise things are developing well, if a bit spasmodically.


I am supposed to teach one year 1 today, but somehow their class disappeared into dance and music, and time outside, but one young lad, someone who I wanted some one to one time with appeared, with a hurt tummy so I got him to help me cut things out for a circus tent activity I want to do. In fact I am glad only he came back as cutting out was such a challenge for him, I realised that the activity I had planned for the whole group would not have worked. I am not supposed to teach year 2, but one young lad kept saying Angleski, and in the end as they were the group I had not taught yesterday I figured why not, and apparently that was what was required but it had been left to the students to tell me so that worked.

Then over lunch,   to my surprise my head said that they are thinking of having a fundraiser, over lines I have suggested to them, but which lots of people have told me just will not work in Kyrgyzstan. Anyway apparently another member of staff went to something similar in Bishkek, so they have already discussed it and are going to see if it is possible,  and everyone was very excited today thinking what we might do. My head is very ambitious and open to ideas, she has suggested me singing in Kyrgys and the rest of the staff learning the Scottish country dance I taught the children the second term!  Help, it could be a very busy last term. They are going to sound out the parents and see what they think, but if so it would mean while I have been totally unsuccessful re leaf mulch and apples, I might have introduced the notion of pta's and fundraisers to the school.  We need the money, I spent the whole day making resources, when I was not teaching today, and much of the time was spent trying to add a bit of colour as our colour printer is out of action. Anyway so that was surprising,  then I was told that as year 1 have finished learning their Alphabet (Russian)  they will have a little holiday next Friday, their parents will be invited to see them give little displays in five topics and English is to be one topic. However, given that each time I have tried running an English class for the parents, it has been curtailed I immediately, said we would not do a display in English or song, we would invite all the parents to join in a class with their children.  Now I just have to plan something that will work and be fun.

More surprising is a development back in the UK apparently my old college is part of a consortium helping to develop vocational education in Saudi Arabia.  I have been telling my employer and his brother here that that is what they should try and introduce here so it is very interesting and even amazing that my old college, which was nice and gentle when I started there, but more cut throat, by the end should be headed in that direction. I genuinely think it is an exciting development.