In Vietnam, it rains. Especially in the rainy season. It rains at any time of day, whenever it feels like it. Mostly it rains when you're just about to get on your bike or have to go somewhere outside, urgently. Sometimes it rains during lessons and all my students ignore it because they have seen rain before...
Unless it is the first big storm of the season, during a lunch break, whereupon they all do this:
And on my lunch duty, I watch them running around doing this:
And I am not allowed to do this:
Instead, I have to tell them off and remind them that when they get into lessons, they'll freeze to death under the air conditioning.
And then the children look more like this:
And I realise that when they look at me, they see this:
Instead of this:
Which, frankly, is a real shame because essentially, here, Kate Middleton has just stolen my life in order to get a decent photograph with some cutely-intelligent looking artistic kid.
I do this.
This is me.
On a daily basis.
Except my hair isn't as nice.
And I don't really lower myself to sitting on plastic chairs with the masses.
And I don't let my kids do crap like artistic expression. Pshoar! More silent reading, please!
... oh, wait, we're back to this:
Too. Sad.
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