Spiders and flies is a game
we’ve taught to the kids in PE. It’s not stayed there, emerging during mornings
and breaks as group entertainment. It’s like tag, but the spider (It) has to
stay on a line rather than run around, and flies run from one end of a space to
the other, across the spider’s line. It’s great fun to watch.
We’re in the school bus (Recently
acquired, and still a vague novelty to the kids.) dropping off the second to
last child, and instead of leaving straight away we stay. The child’s mother
bakes, a lot, and it’s amazing. All the
teachers get bread and pastries from her and Joel’s (The schools ‘director’.
Even he’s not sure of his own title. He was part of the founding group though,
and is the westerner-in-charge. Cru Ooy is the thai-in-charge. We call her ‘boss’)
taking the opportunity to order some. It’s probably also a subtle check-up; she’s
recovering from cancer, and has been kind of adopted by the school family. They’re
very good at looking after their own.
So, I hop out with the last
two kids. Well, fall out. They’re laughing quite a lot, and getting stuck in
the seats and dropping bags and I’m finding it too amusing to really be much
use. I joke with the second child that we’re going to leave her here. “You’re going
to live here now, ok? Really? You will sleep here? Ok!”