A walk through the halls at work....

Early in the morning.. when your eyes are probably still asleep, I am awake.
I am out on the not so busy streets of Cairo.
I am on my way to work.
I love my job. I love my class. I love being a teacher. I feel lucky to be with my students day in and day out.
I feel lucky to be so much to them.
I feel lucky to be able to see everything with their eyes, before I see it with my own.

There are things I do not like. These things pretty much start where my class ends. I hate the administration. I hate most of the people I work with. Even the normal crowd at work isn't very normal ;o)!
I seriously think that this school is a psychology experiment and we are the guinea pigs. I do not understand how they could get so many random, scary, skeevy, perverted people all to work at one school. I am sure that somewhere professors are observing us somehow. This cannot be natural and unplanned.

So.... let me take you there. Sit down, observe... we can analyze later.

You are walking up the stairs..
Welcome to the first floor. This is the little people floor. Kindergarten until third grade.
On the left you will see KG class that has not had a teacher for more than a month.

Next door is the registrars office. D is too busy chain smoking to help you. Other man does not speak English so forget asking him for whatever you need. M's desk is there but he is not. He is probably off trying to make obscene sexual inuendos to the staff and students. No one is safe from him.

Next on our ghetto school tour is the multi-media lab. It is just an old school computer lab. Most of the computers are not working because the mice ate the cords. It does not matter. There is not internet so there is not much to teach the kids anyway!

On we go.. next stop on the tour. Mrs D's Library! This is a real treat. You will be able to watch the movie that is used to pacify the kids in the library. Mrs D is too busy playing solitaire on the computer. She should be reading to the students but she doesn't. I am not sure if she is too lazy.. or if she cannot read out loud because she only has 3 teeth. Uh oh.. the kids are getting noisy. "Y'all best be quiet! Or else I will not let you come to the library nomore!!" Mrs D saves the day.. and did not even have to look away from the computer screen!

On we go... next door is another administrative treat! We have the office of 2 supervisors. The neurotic red file S and the never stop talking M. If we walk very quietly they might not notice us.. if they notice us we get sucked into the office and only god could save us then! Well... We're lucky. We were not caught. They seemed busy. S was probably in a daze because she knows her husband (perverted M) is having an affair with another co-worker.

Well, please walk fast, we still have so much to see.. and not enough time.

As we walk please notice the not so subtle off-key melody we hear. This is a rare occasion ladies and gentlemen. The music teacher is actually here today. This is your lucky day. Lets silently observe from outside for the sake of safety. Mrs. A is short but her bite is worse than her bark! Please do not be alarmed, she is hitting the child for his own sake. A good tug at the ear and slap on the face does wonders when trying to quiet a child down...

Ok, ladies and gentlemen.. we have to move on.

On the left you can all wave to Ms. S (part of the not so normal crowd!)....

We're walking, we're walking... ahhhh we have made it to the wonderful kingdom of grade 3....
This special little third grade kindom is ruled by none other than the "Beautiful Princess Nora"!

Please turn to your left and meet the art teacher Mrs S.
Oh god.. I have had more productive conversations with my mashed potatoes! It is hard to get a point across... Just nod and smile. It makes it less painful!

Now it is time to go upstairs.
Please use the stairs in front of the Third grade kingdom...

To be continued...