For the last few weeks manual labourers have making appearances in the school at random intervals during the day. They haven’t actually done anything, just wondered around looking at stuff then disappeared again! The mystery of their appearance seemed to have been solved when I came into school last week to find the hall ways had been decorated. Well… the wood had been covered in a different coloured plastic wood effect and the walls had been re-papered.

But this week the workmen returned. I put it down to the new school year starting in March and assumed the school was being spruced up in preparation for an influx of grubby little hands to make it all dirty again! After all they’d only decorated the hallways, the staff office and classrooms were still looking tired and drab.

But yesterday a man interrupted my class and fitted a torch to a bracket on the wall and an exit sign above the door. I had noticed the brackets before but not paid much attention to them due to their emptiness. This was done in every classroom: including Katrina’s where, due to the high standard of workmanship, the sign had fallen down before the end of her 25-minute lesson.

As I was leaving last night the fake dividing wall between two of the kindy classrooms was being removed. Prompting me to wonder what they were planning for the next day.

My questions were answered when I arrived at school this morning – It was fire inspection day!

It’s good to know I am working somewhere where exit signs and torches to aid escape during the event of a fire are only deemed necessary the day before the fire inspection!

Kat and I were also left wondering what kind of operation the school is running earlier in the week when one of the kids came in a bad way after being punched in the lift and putting his teeth through his lip. Whilst trying to comfort the kid Kat asked where the school first aid kit was. Only to be told there isn’t one!

*Harrth = health. It’s a Korean pronunication thing!

* Posted by j150vsc on 02/02/2007.
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