30 July 2009

Sleep Well!

It's 8.30 in the morning and the first exam of the day is about to begin. 18 students slowly enter the classroom and take their seats. But one student isn't happy.

"Teacher!" he says.
"Teacher, look!"

He's pointing at his desk.
"Teacher, dirty!" he says, agitated because someone has drawn on his desk.

This surprises me; he hasn't done a scrap of work all year, his trousers are almost falling off, his shirt is torn and there is a food stain down his tie, yet he wants a sparkling-clean desk?

Grumpily he gets up and switches his desk for a clean new one. Ten minutes later he's slumped over his pristine desk and fast asleep.

To be fair though, he's not the only one sleeping: a Thai teacher is, much to the delight of her exam-sitting students, gently snoring just two doors down.

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