Prep Day

The workload is quite heavy where I work. Every day there are four classes of 90 minutes each. The course material (Speak Out) accounts for about 40% of this time, so that leaves an awful lot of time to fill in a day. It's necessary to find supplementary material that will interest, inform and benefit my students. Luckily, I have a co-teacher and he covers one or two days a week. The days he teaches I can devote to preparation. Today (only a day after my first class) was one of these preparation days. After spending six hours planning everything for the next week, I feel like it's Friday already and I could sleep for two days. I just got a knock at the door. My colleague informs me that tomorrow will be an unusual day. Yesterday was the celebration of the Navy's anniversary, which was attended by the Prime Minister of Timor Leste. As it turns out, he may be visiting my school tomorrow, so I should "not dress in rags" and be prepared to lose a class or two as the soldiers prepare to welcome Prime Minister Xanana Guzmão. Here he is: