Today our tour guide (the one with the crazy hair on the far right - his name is Majit, pronounced "Midget") invited all 20 of us to his brother's house for tea. What I learned from this experience:
1. Teapots are made with two levels..one holds the boiling water, the other holds the tea, so you can make it as strong as you want.
2. You go to someone's house, you better take your shoes off.
3. The teacher (Idip, the gentleman standing with the children) was very interested in learning about teaching in America. He asked specifically about teacher salaries, because he has to work another job to make ends meet. His monthly salary after taxes is about $1000. We told him that while our salary in NC is higher, we still have many teachers who take on extra jobs to make it through.
One interesting note - when we visited schools the other day, one of the teachers in the group asked about discipline problems. The principal replied that there were none. Well, the young man in this picture told us he was in a fight at school. His punishment was to write "I will never fight in school again" 300 times.
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