I don't allow anyone to talk to me like that. So you're lucky - you're a teacher.

The clerical work is par for the course. 'Keep on file in numerical order' means throw in wastebasket. You'll soon learn the language. 'Let it be a challenge t…

When I had asked why they were taking English, a boy said: 'To help us in real life.'

The building itself is hostile: cracked plaster, broken windows, splintered doors and carved up desks, gloomy corridors and metal stairways, dingy cafeteria (t…