  Oral updates at a later date. Before I set off for our youth day celebrations, though, here's something: For the past couple of months our class has been arranging a dunking station - which is a mainstay at all of those girls' school fairs (ours is today but closed to the public). The only thing that stood in the way was approval; then, the teacher in charge said it was not a viable operation and refused to release school funds for transport, etc etc.
Cue two months later: Yesterday they announced - to the very private disgust of those who had worked hard on it (that is, not me) - that they *were* going to have the station after all. The best part of the deal is that they used the contacts that one of my classmates had gone so painstakingly to compile for the best deal. From bewildered faces I don't think they were even informed. I mean, look, putting even a minimum effort into school activities is not in my blood. And again, it doesn't even matter in the first place *who* collects the money. But isn't that despicable. (It's in coupons that you've *already* paid for as part of the school fees, and I doubt all the coupons will find homes in plasic bags, so what does one do with the surplus?
Another jacuzzi? ) It doesn't justify any kind of school spirit or what. Not that the teachers sing the school song or anything - they'd have a better chance of singing the DPRK national anthem, and scoring a perfect game at bowling. Plain sad - because the people who bother the most get buggered. All stolen: the project, the potential testimonial mentions, their almost disillusioned idea that our school is actually worth bothering about, etc and all that.
Well, that's quite typical from a professional. I don't know how their thought processes functioned shortly after the class' proposal was rejected, but the people involved could have done with an apology. That might be beyond professionals though. Laterz. I've got to tend to my super arm-wrestling booth. (PS In defence of the dunking booth, give 'em credit: for some obscure reason nobody else has ever had the courage to bring the idea up.
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