A group of men were huddled over something on the pavement all looking down at the ground. I walked over to the group and pushed myself through the crowd to see what was going on. There on the ground was a small straight-sided grey bowl inside which two crickets were chasing each other across hot… Read More »
I am doing 6 hours of oral English in a university each week. Teaching oral English means getting the students to speak in English as much as possible. Trouble is there’s only me in the room and they can’t all speak to me so my plan is to get them out speaking to westerners in… Read More »
The whiteness of my legs has given my friends and family something to laugh about for as long as I can remember. Whenever they came out they would put their legs next to them to compare the colour and laugh at my milky white skin. As a child I used to put sun tan oil… Read More »
All morning we had been listening to the importance of processes, timing, audio recording, stop watches, what not to wear; noisy jewellery, short skirts (as if!), low cut tops or shorts, told not to be violent towards the students (!), smile, relax, be punctual and professional… my head was spinning. And as if that wasn’t… Read More »