My colleagues.

I am just thankful I have a group of colleagues whom I am so comfortable being with. I guess every teacher has their own cliques but I certainly did not expect to get this especially in Mangosteen School.

Today we had a farewell lunch for Lim who was transferred to another school that has more Chinese students. She's a Chinese Language teacher. In about 2-3 years time, there will be absolutely no Chinese students in Mangosteen School. How sad. Today we only have less than 10 students. Talk about racial segregation..and racial integration among students here is almost zero.

After lunch, a few of us visited an Australian teacher here who is part of the ministry's programme of enhancing and improving the teaching of English in primary schools. Aah, my heart goes out to her after hearing the series of (unfortunate) events that took place the moment she arrived here about a week ago. House not ready-broken promises-different culture-fractured toe-inability to move around-pain-language-loneliness-frustration. This kind of situation needs a very brave person and I know she is exactly that person.

I'm glad today was a holiday because I've not had such a fun, fulfilling and meaningful outing for a very long time...