I want to live a life in the village...
A lot has happened in the past week..
I met Mahesh on Saturday. He clearly told his parents, while I was with him, "I don't want to meet Daniel [me] today." He was pretty worked up about getting some chocolates for his birthday that's coming up. He was grabbing his father's arm and leading him to the chocolates section in Carrefour, again and again. Somehow his mother and I managed to pull him away from there and I took him away to some other part of the mall while his parents shopped at Carrefour. I sat and talked to him for about an hour before he hurried back to Carrefour to meet his parents, as planned.
In other news, I think I'm finally done with the practical work in my Biology coursework i.e. no more slicing organs off a plant, no more grinding, no more playing around with hydrogen peroxide and water, no more wrestling the girls for total possession of a gas syringe... you get my point. I'm just afraid the Bio teacher will take one look at some of my wayward measurements and tell me to do another round of experiments. But let's hope not.
Also, I think the Bio teacher is overcharging me for a 400-ml beaker that I broke. Here's how it happened: I was cleaning my apparatus after I'd finished one experiment when I saw a beaker lying in the sink, feeling unclean. I picked it up to wash it, scrub its insides out etc. because I'm an obsessively clean person, even about my things that aren't mine... anyways, I was wearing latex gloves and apparently pyrex is just too smooth for latex, so the beaker slipped out of my grip and fell a very short distance onto the floor fo the sink. Its base broke and what I was left with was a wide, hollow glass tube [the body] and a glass disk [the base].
So anyways, now we have to pay for the stuff we've broken. She told me the beaker costs AED 257. Yes, that exorbitant because they get their lab equipment from the UK. But I calculated and that amounts to about £36. Uhm, you can buy the Queen's crown for all that money! So I talked to my classmate Joshua, whose father supplies lab equipment and asked him to find out the price of a pyrex 400-ml beaker. Well, he called me a while back and told me that he can sell me one for AED 28.50. Pah-hah!
This week is full of tests and deadlines. And Jim isn't showing any signs of backing down from his oh-so-obvious façade of straightness. It's hard to concentrate in Chemistry class when your crush is licking his dry lips, you know...
I met Mahesh on Saturday. He clearly told his parents, while I was with him, "I don't want to meet Daniel [me] today." He was pretty worked up about getting some chocolates for his birthday that's coming up. He was grabbing his father's arm and leading him to the chocolates section in Carrefour, again and again. Somehow his mother and I managed to pull him away from there and I took him away to some other part of the mall while his parents shopped at Carrefour. I sat and talked to him for about an hour before he hurried back to Carrefour to meet his parents, as planned.
In other news, I think I'm finally done with the practical work in my Biology coursework i.e. no more slicing organs off a plant, no more grinding, no more playing around with hydrogen peroxide and water, no more wrestling the girls for total possession of a gas syringe... you get my point. I'm just afraid the Bio teacher will take one look at some of my wayward measurements and tell me to do another round of experiments. But let's hope not.
Also, I think the Bio teacher is overcharging me for a 400-ml beaker that I broke. Here's how it happened: I was cleaning my apparatus after I'd finished one experiment when I saw a beaker lying in the sink, feeling unclean. I picked it up to wash it, scrub its insides out etc. because I'm an obsessively clean person, even about my things that aren't mine... anyways, I was wearing latex gloves and apparently pyrex is just too smooth for latex, so the beaker slipped out of my grip and fell a very short distance onto the floor fo the sink. Its base broke and what I was left with was a wide, hollow glass tube [the body] and a glass disk [the base].
So anyways, now we have to pay for the stuff we've broken. She told me the beaker costs AED 257. Yes, that exorbitant because they get their lab equipment from the UK. But I calculated and that amounts to about £36. Uhm, you can buy the Queen's crown for all that money! So I talked to my classmate Joshua, whose father supplies lab equipment and asked him to find out the price of a pyrex 400-ml beaker. Well, he called me a while back and told me that he can sell me one for AED 28.50. Pah-hah!
This week is full of tests and deadlines. And Jim isn't showing any signs of backing down from his oh-so-obvious façade of straightness. It's hard to concentrate in Chemistry class when your crush is licking his dry lips, you know...