Today we had our first day in school – with parents weeping at the school gate (not ours!). We are helping the students with their English lessons. It is a small school with one class for each year, and the ages range from 4 to 16. The school is located in the centre of the old town of Nazareth and is squeezed into the densely populated market (souq) area. The children obviously see many tourists in Nazareth, but it is very rare for them to interact with foreigners. The younger children found it very strange to have people with blue eyes, pale skin and fair hair sitting in their classes; at the start of each class we had 30 pairs of brown eyes continually staring at us. It is quite uncomfortable being the ‘odd one out’, but after we had started helping them with their work 'Mr Peter' and 'Mrs Jane' didn’t seem so strange. In the picture, which is the odd one? PTuesday, 6 October 2009
The odd one out
Today we had our first day in school – with parents weeping at the school gate (not ours!). We are helping the students with their English lessons. It is a small school with one class for each year, and the ages range from 4 to 16. The school is located in the centre of the old town of Nazareth and is squeezed into the densely populated market (souq) area. The children obviously see many tourists in Nazareth, but it is very rare for them to interact with foreigners. The younger children found it very strange to have people with blue eyes, pale skin and fair hair sitting in their classes; at the start of each class we had 30 pairs of brown eyes continually staring at us. It is quite uncomfortable being the ‘odd one out’, but after we had started helping them with their work 'Mr Peter' and 'Mrs Jane' didn’t seem so strange. In the picture, which is the odd one? P
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I never was very good at these things. Will you eventually publish the answer ? I refuse to make a fool of myself by saying what i think.......! School sounds good My attitude to parental tears at the gate changed when i became a parent !
God bless you and your work
Carole
is it the yellow one. Come on put us out of our suspense
is it the yellow one- come on put us out of our suspense- you know how competitive I am - think baby shower and nursery rhymes.
can we say that there is no odd one really because there is three circles and three x's but one y in a circle who still can relate with the x's because he is a circle. And there is one square who can still relate because he has an x. so i would say that we all have much in common so how can we point each other out has odd? but i could be wrong.
(a) is the odd one out because it it a 'Y'; (b) is the odd one out because it is a square; (c) is the odd one out because it is yellow; so (d) is the odd one out because it isn't an odd one!
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