Enter a bat

My first primary school class today was interrupted by a bat. In broad daylight, it flew in through the window and circled the room twice, before flying at my head and leaving. I chalked up the word “bat” in large letters and a moment later the children were singing out “it is a bat, I spell B-A-T bat!” as if it were the most normal thing in the world.
The rest of the class went well enough, with Simon Says proving a popular game. We did a clothes vocab exercise, which quickly became an excuse for the boys to tell the girls to “take off your skirt” (or their little brothers to put on your skirt).
This morning I met someone from the APSARA Authority, the government department that looks after monuments. Catherine had sent them a fax last week requesting the meeting and it looks like from Monday we will be proof reading and translating for them in return for access to the monuments and some special field trips...
We just had ten minutes of rain. C is feeling a lot better today. Rice harvesting continues over the weekend so no lessons now til Monday
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