Most of the students don't carry bags back and forth to school. They usually stick their homework in their pants' pocket and usually have it done by the time it's due. The other day a student stayed after school to get some missing work done. He hasn't been doing his homework much lately so when I suggested he spend his time working on that I figured he'd say he lost it or left it somewhere. Instead, it was in his pants pocket. He took it out and got most of it done in fifteen minutes.
A lot of the houses in town don't have running water. The families in these houses have to use the expensive and disgusting village laundromat. We have laundry facilities in our apartment. These facts may be why the the students often notice and remark that I wear different clothes to school every day. Conversely, I notice that they usually wear the same clothes all week. My method is good for conforming to "down-states" standards of smelling and looking acceptable for work; theirs is good for saving money, avoiding a trip to the laundromat and having your homework on you at all times.
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"My method is good for conforming to "down-states" standards of smelling and looking acceptable for work; theirs is good for saving money, avoiding a trip to the laundromat and having your homework on you at all times."
ReplyDeleteReading this it occurs to me that you write very well. I enjoy your work now that i don't have to grade it.
Don't get the kids backpacks- they hold lots more lost homework.
If you had a chance to read "Arctic Dreams" you will have learned that the arc of the sun's travel gets further and further south until on the solstice it doesn't make it over the southern horizon if you are standing on the arctic circle. I really liked that book. hope you did, too.
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