Weeding (Courtney)

Below you will see a picture of some kids out the front of our apartment. This happens frequently. A little while ago whilst walking with one of the teachers we asked her what the kids were doing. She replied that because they live in a "city" (not quite so sure whether I'd go calling Dong Ting a city!) they don't learn any farming skills, so instead they learn some here at school. Hmm...I don't see much farming going on, but I do see a heck of a lot of weeding!




Now, whilst the pic really just shows a whole bunch of kids milling around, and who blames them, it is about 40 freaking degrees today, they do actually go and weed sections of the school. Whilst this might seem boring, it's gotta be better than being in class.



But what truly stands out in this photo, and the reason for it being posted, is that you can just see a blue car parked. Well that car belongs to their teacher. Oh yes, whilst the students have walked over in the heat, to then weed, the teacher drives over in air conditioned luxury! This is endemic of this school, we see people driving to the most ridiculous places. For example, we see teachers drive from their office to the canteen at lunch. But even more ridiculous than that are the teachers who drive from the library to their offices....couldn't be more than 100 metres at a push! Ah, it's like the novelty of car/scooter ownership is yet to wear off around here.