Haze!!!

The haze is getting worse. In the morning it's bad, but it gets progressively worse as the hours tick by and by nightfall it's very dense. It always seems to let up by morning, I'm assuming it's because of dew.

Almost all the primary school students are now walking around with face masks. I don't see the secondary school students doing the same though - I assume it's because they think it isn't cool. My own mom scoffed when I suggested wearing a face mask - I bought some yesterday - but then, she works in an air-conditioned building. While I'm lucky enough that my school is air-conditioned, the hallways aren't and the smog still permeates the rooms. There's a heavy smell of smoke tickling throats and noses and asthmatics are using their inhalers a lot more frequently.

I shall take a picture later today - if I remember to - and post it here. This is the worst haze I've ever experienced.

Oops...

I accidentally hit the back of a student's head with a door today. I was at one of my naughtiest classes where the students love to disappear from the room before I come in. One girl was leaning against the open door talking to her friends from another class and ignoring my orders to go into the classroom. So I began to close the door to nudge her in. I think what happened was she resisted the door when it suddenly slipped and hit the back of her head. The worst thing is, it was in front of a bunch of students and two teachers who had chosen to come to speak to me at that moment! She was groaning in pain and I was rubbing her head and I kept telling her to go to the infirmary to get something for it. At first she didn't but finally she did.

 

She went around telling everyone what happened and was even shouting it out loudly when I was leaving the school after hours, and kept saying that she will hold it against me (she's said that many times in the past when I've been pretty sarcastic, so I'm rather immune to that, really). All I said was that she wasn't loud enough. She added that I've caused her brain damage, and my sarcastic reply was ... err ... mean. Well, I'm known for my evil sarcasm... now I'm going to be known as the one who hits students on the head with a door.