We seem to be the proud owners of, not one, but two dogs. We started with only one. His name is Bingo (the one in the water in the photo) and he came with the house. Since we are living at the school and are only 50 metres from the classrooms, all the students know him. He's only six months old but is quite well behaved. We set him free to roam the neighbourhood during the day but he sleeps at our feet for the rest of the day. He will occasionally wander into my classroom much to the delight of the students and I have to take a 2-minute break to return him home. Interestingly, the kids here have never heard of the game Bingo (which are now playing to teach the difference between the letter R and the letter L). The other dog was frequently hiding in our yard. She is very skittish and it took us several days before she would even accept food from us...but now that we're feeding her and it's a big, bad world out there, Percy sees no reason to ever leave our yard.

Taking attendance is a difficult process. I am responsible each day for taking attendance in class 10B. However, there is no actual homeroom time and I don't ever teach that class. So, at some point in the day, I need to pop my head into the class and ask if everyone is there that day. If the response is no, I ask who is away and have to determine why. Invariably, the name they give me will not be on my hand-written list for the class. After all, this is the list from last year. I asked if new lists were available yet and the response was "soon". The result is that for each of my classes, I've had to create my own list of students and hope that they give me the correct names (Bruce Lee and Pele seem like surprisingly popular names in this African country)