Friday marked Genee’s return from her first week at her school. Fortunately it went very well and she really enjoys most of the children at her school. Her teaching skills are being put to the test, as her class has children that range in age from two to seven. Added to this is the fact that none of the kids under five really has a sufficient command of English to fully understand what it is she’s saying.
Despite these obstacles, however, she enjoys them and they seem to enjoy her – perhaps partly because the regular full-time teacher is of the ‘spare the (hourly) rod, spoil the child’ school of thought. They also enjoy experimentally touching her hair and fingertips, poking her skin, and even – inexplicably – licking their fingers and then touching the skin on her forearms. One girl was fairly mesmerized by the ability to see the blood in Genee’s veins right through her skin (she seemed less than convinced when Genee explained that unoxygenated blood is blue) and suggested that if Genee wanted to turn her skin the colour of the girls' she simply needed to get more sun.
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