All went well for the first half of class. I had the students working quietly on a worksheet. It was sweltering hot in the classroom, so I turned on the air conditioner. Yay, it works! With the first gust of cool air...out comes a HUGE (4 inches long, maybe?) cockroach, landing on a student's back. She doesn't notice, so I run over, to try and get rid of it before anyone notices (no idea how I thought I might do this). She feels it crawling down her back, and lets out a scream. Suddenly the entire class is up, screaming, yelling running around the (small) room. The cockroach runs one way; they run the other. And I'm chasing the cockroach with a wastebasket. It was total chaos for about a minute.
Welcome, Miss Cindy, to teaching in Bangladesh!
This guy hangs out in my room, and greets me every morning when I turn on the bathroom light.
Maybe I should be, but I'm just not a squisher!
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ReplyDeleteOK, I just talked to the Peace Corp workers I e-mailed you about. Here is the ex-pat/cockroach story. Firtst you refuse to eat the food the cockroach touched. Then after a while you just brush the cockroach off. You know you've settled in when you just mix the cockroach in the food!! Let me know how they taste!
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