We spent the morning at the Schwartz Matriculation school, sitting in and seeing if there was anything we could pick up from their English lessons. It's great meeting the teachers and being stared at by the kids (just pretend we're not here – as if you can!).
One of the teachers kept asking us if she was doing it right, but I think she probably knows more about English than we do! We sat in on one of the H.M.'s Geography lessons as well, teaching XIIth Standard (the last year before they go off to college – seventeen year-olds!). She says is'n'it ('isn't it' for anyone who doesn't get it) a lot, often when it doesn't make sense! But she is a great teacher and is very stern with her class.
The lesson was about the two monsoons and what causes them, which direction they come from, where they go and when. In the afternoon we went to St. Andrew's, flushed with activity and that old 'getting-somewhere' feeling, to see if we could observe some lessons there, but they were all busy so we couldn't. Well, we stood around for a bit and weren't really noticed so we ran away.
The evening was spent playing chess (C. – six, me – twelve and five stalemates). We did have a bit of a tiff because I let C. play on after a stalemate so he could beat me and then wouldn't let him claim that he'd won. But that's the way with chess...