Here Comes the Sun

It finally stopped raining, the sun is out and it’s hot!
This is more what I expected. It feels like summer, in the sun it’s very hot, but in the shade (even in classrooms) it’s not bad. And definitely not as humid as NY or MD.

As for my Roadworthy saga…
Monday morning, I headed back to the Traffic Dept for my registration.
(Emily my student teacher, yeah Emily!, covered my classes again. She goes back to university this week, and she will be missed.) At the Traffic Dept, I arrive and get in line, but at 8:30 am, it doesn’t open. Yep, computers are still down.
I head back to teach my mid-morning classes, and then I have a long break and lunch, so I head back, not so optimistically, to the Traffic Dept. When I arrive the computers are working and there’s hardly any line! In ½ hour, I am roadworthy!
PS On Wed, I received my first traffic ticket for not having my registration ticket displayed in my window. 250 Rand (about $35). Traffic police and tickets seem to be big here; I see them EVERYWHERE, and they do random pull-overs; that’s how I got my ticket.

Other than that, things here are fine. School is going well. My 11th graders turned in their first lab reports, and my 10th graders had their first test. Also, a group of 12th graders has asked me to teach them after school to prepare for their Matric exams (to get into University), and I am giving a lecture on atomic spectra and lasers to the 12th graders during their science class this coming Monday. I hope it goes well.

A note to my students in NYC… they have Saturday Academy here too!! Only they have it all year, it’s already started for some classes.
As for me, I think I will just work a few Saturdays at the end of each term (they have 4 terms here).