Four Hundred Days Til Re-entry

More of my mundane life

Not that mundane today though. For the second time in two weeks I was invited outside to have a look at the problem, pictured below at about 1.30 in the afternoon.

The outdoor pool had been taking a few beauty tips from the paddy fields over the fence. For those of you who haven't seen one, a rice field is a rectangular pool of mud that comes up to ankle. Home of mosquitoes, elderly farmers and incautious drivers. Usually the drivers are in there in the winter when the roads are icy. Often there are no pavements so if you venture off the road then you are going home via the police station, the auto-repair shop, the bank and the farmer's house to apologise with money.

Anywhat - the schools deal with this problem by giving the kids mops and sponges and suchlike. The teachers wander round the sides spraying water round giving the kids conflicting orders. Great fun! Especially with me around to butter the stairs.

This school has a new pool and sports hall recently, so the place is generally in good nick. Certainly better than the other school I work at. The other school has good everything else. The school pictured here has good pools and sports hall, bad everything else. The other school litterally had six inches of thick mud that had to be scraped out and carried to the edge of the school where it was dumped.


Hey presto - I absolutely fucking amazed at how clean they got this baby in the space of about an hour and a half. There is no water in here - that reflection is coming off the bottom of the pool.

posted by Between daisies @ 19:55