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Today I taught more kindergarten kids at the Teddy Bear English school but this time on my own with their mothers present. One of the kids likes me and the other hates me but I got to play with a ball and I managed to get her partly on my side for a short time until colouring time. Those pesky swings. After that I had four young boys (oh yeah Simon?)

The elementary school I went to had the loud music and enforced (outside) freezing breaktime exercise regime as the last school. They came back again with massive smiles. These kids really are crazy.

I am getting sick of having to wear the provided-by-the-school plastic slippers that are three sizes too small when I visit the schools. This leaves me to walk around cold floors in large unheated rooms in thin threadbare socks being coughed on by children carrying infectious diseases. But I no longer work in a pork pie factory, nor am I penniless in Germany anymore and I am sure many of you will have had far worse days today. So for that I am grateful.