I want to be a teacher in Bangalore! Specifically a teacher at the lils school. The weather is great, the classes are small, the children seem to be pretty happy and well behaved, and their are no snowsuits to fight with. The biggest clothing change that they have to deal with is the change into swimsuits a couple of times a week. Wet bathing suits can be tricky, but the children are swimming, which makes the vast majority of them very happy! The best part of being a teacher in my lils school has to be getting to teach Woo and Goose. Not enough? Think about the holidays.

Today marked the first day that the lils have been to school in over two weeks. We arrived here, they attended the first week of classes, a full week, and then went on break for Diwali. A break that lasted over two weeks. Diwali is a Holiday in India, and the rest of the country gets one, two, or three days, I am told. The lils’ school got two weeks, plus a day. Next week, and the week that follows are each shortened by a day, then a couple of full weeks and we are into three weeks for Christmas… It goes on.

I realize that not all of these days and weeks are strict holidays, and that the teachers are actually working during that some of that time, but for much of it they are not working. I also don’t know if these are paid holidays, but when you total up the time that they are not in the classroom over the course of the year, it is twenty weeks! That is a pretty impressive amount of time out of the classroom!