Ahh- as a result of last night's escapades, I am now sitting with a forceful stare at the computer screen, to prevent myself from nodding off! Well Aman and I set off to bed pretty early last night but were horribly awoken by the noisiest and most irritating siren ever. Obviously realized that it was the fire drill, but it took such mental strength to get out of bed. We seemed to be one of the last outside and the stragglers that came after, were asked to line up in front of everyone. The entire hostel had been evacuated for the fire drill and were sitting in their lines on the volleyball court, while about 10 late comers stood facing them. Most of the kids that were late were deaf, cause their dorm mates (hearing) hadn't woken them up- which was well outa order. The deaf kids are separated into diff dorms so that they share with hearing students, so that if there is ever a fire, they can be physically woken up etc. So- me and Aman were completely shocked to see that the male asrama warden, Mojuntin, had a bucket of water and proceeded to chuck it over each kids head. At first, we thought- yeah, amusing- but we could see that the kids were completely humiliated and no one- not even most of the other students sitting down, found it funny. Fair doo's in a western country it's might've been amusing, but here- to even touch a child's head is offensive, and to wet their clothes is really humiliating for them- especially the muslim girls. Was pretty out of order. Was just meant to humiliate them in front of the others. The teacher's seem to use humiliation as punishment quite often here. Anyway, there was a severe lack of sleep all round and we were up oober early this morning to teach the deaf children to make shortbread. I was really impressed that I managed to take the class pretty much single handedly as Aman and Cathrine helped me out with the odd word to sign. Happy with the amount of sign I've picked up recently and was really chuffed when Cathrine said that I know more sign than most of the other teachers and they've been at the school for years. I'm just printing up lyrics for "Auld Lang Syne" just now, as I'm havin a ceilidh with my classes today. Then I'm off to KK to see Mammy and Gran- ahh- so can't wait! Only about 6 hours to go! Oh yeah- last night Aman and I spent about 3 hours giving our room a major clean- so mum- you better be impressed!