It took me a while to post my third week and now I also have a post about my fourth week.

My students are good kids minus all the noise they love to make. But I'm still disappointed with how little they know in social studies and government. I did a revision with my govt students and  the same 3 people were answering my questions only about 30% of the time. This class has almost 40 students. I also gave them a quiz that had 10 multiple choice questions. My highest scores were 4. I've started punishing the students, I wish I didn't have to but they wouldn't keep quiet. Wall sits are currently a favourite.

My JS1 boys are so cute. All the girls are much bigger, obviously this is the phase where they grow faster. The boys are tiny, there's one that's a little above my waist and that is small cause Lord knows I'm short.

So there's this special woman that works here as a cleaner. Apparently, she was once a student at the school and she was even very smart but one day she just went off and she hasn't been the same. She seems pretty lucid sometimes and you'll have decent conversations with her, other times, she's having one of her phases and she's reading to us in the staff room or staring to the point that it makes you nervous. Oh well, I wish she could get better cause she's actually really nice. A teacher said someone in the village did "voodoo" or what Nigerians will call "juju" for her.

Oh and I got into a little argument with a teacher. I wore a dress and he commented that I look much better. Don't I feel better? Emmmm, no I don't. Anyway, he went on to tell me that female teachers shouldn't wear trousers and apart from that, it made me look loose and wayward. I said maybe in the village but definitely not in a place like Lagos. He told me my location doesn't matter, a typical Yoruba girl shouldn't wear trousers because it's unacceptable in our culture. I wish you would read this but I'll tell you that the only thing constant is change. If Yoruba culture found that unacceptable before, guess what honey? In Lagos, it's 2012 and we don't consider women wayward and loose for wearing trousers. Maybe I should wear my body hugging dresses to school. After all, it's a dress. Also, I hypothetically asked him if a student should emulate a "wayward and loose" teacher in a skirt or the upstanding woman in the trousers. You know what this man said? He responded that any woman that decides to wear trousers already has a little bad character in her but of course, he's not passing judgement on me. He's just telling me the right way to do things. I will tell you this, remain in your small village with your small thinking and of course, your small progress. Ok that sounds childish but I was angry.

But I guess it shows how we sometimes focus on the things that don't matter and ignore the deeper stuff. Because I'm not wearing an A-line knee length skirt with a long sleeved blouse doesn't mean I'm a terrible person. Rather than calling them close minded (even though I know they really are), I'll just say that's their way of life.

Oh and of course, I have to add this. I had a little incident in my government class. I taught SS2 last week because their teacher travelled for a little while. Anyway, I caught a couple of girls sleeping in my class so of course, I had to wake them (a guy accused them of sleeping because they're pregnant which they didn't confirm or deny, not my business). A third girl was kneeling and I thought she was also sleeping so I tried to wake her and this was the beginning of "possessed madness." She fell to the floor so the students rushed her outside and she started crying and telling us she had a confession to make. Now honestly, I didn't know what to make of all this but I knew I wanted a video but another corper stopped me.  Apparently she goes to a cele church and their spirit was "disturbing" her. Anyway, the school administration called her family and they came with their pastor to take her away. I haven't seen her since and I was told she might be out for seven days. Good luck child.

So I have more photographs that go with this post but I have taken forever uploading it and my internet situation isn't the best right now. I will try to upload them tomorrow. Thanks for reading.

A former student's work. 

Her work continued

This is how the female teachers dress and I am expected to follow suit. Sorry darlings, not happening.