Yesterday I got to school a little before 7. The head teacher had asked me to come earlier so I could mark the exams from the prior day. When I showed up I was one of the only people at school other than some janitors and grounds keepers. I didn’t end up doing anything with my hour of extra time; Pius didn’t show up until 8:00 so the marking was put off.
I was stuck proctoring exams all day, again, but it was okay because I was kept busy with marking all of the previous exams. However, I was told that I will be supervising exams today and tomorrow as well, which I’m not excited for. I stayed at school until 5:30 grading and organizing and then went along with the bus route to drop kids off.
On the bus route home we went a new way for some remedial kids who were recently placed on our route. This took us towards Arusha’s city center about 30 minutes. Some of the houses we drove by amazed me. We went through a neighborhood where every single house was mansion. I wish I had got some pictures, but no luck. They reminded me of some of the La Jolla homes (minus the ocean view). I had a great time on this long drive home, I got to talk with one of the drivers who is hoping to study German so he can become a tour guide. He was saying that he is paid less than $5 a day, but is hoping to find a college he can go to during the day in between picking kids up in the morning and dropping them off in the evening. Once home around 7:30 I got to shower, have some dinner, help with some homework and then had a meeting at 9 with some teachers who are in a bit of trouble for not showing up to extra curricular activities (and I can’t blame them because they aren’t getting paid any extra and it asks them to commit 3 extra hours a week). Right to bed after that. I’m not having much time for reading these days and I’m a bit bummer:(