Tuesday, 20 November 2012

Quite a disruptive visit



We were speculating last week about having a day off tomorrow because of President Obama’s visit. Unfortunately, the always welcome words ‘you have an extra day off’ were never spoken.

This afternoon, during KK’s cooking class, we talked about it again, same result though, no one had heard the words that would give us an extra day.

Then this evening at around 9 pm, my assistant teacher called. She had it from a colleague. We have indeed a long weekend thanks to President Obama’s visit. Apparently a large section of Pyay Road will be blocked of tomorrow and our school happens to be on Pyay Road.  There is no use having the school open when nobody can get there.

Even though I have no problem at all with having an extra day to spend with the kids, I am a bit disappointed. We were working on persuasive writing with Grade 4 and they have sent beautiful letters of invitation to President Obama that I delivered last week at the embassy. They invited him to our classroom for some Myanmar snacks and a short lesson on the language and history.

It is a pity that the kids can not even have the suspense of the slight possibility that President Obama  could come for a visit.

Me, in stead of getting ready for another workday tomorrow, realize I can read some more in the excellent book I grabbed from the Library on Friday.

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