The day passed fairly uneventfully. We tried to break into the kitchen in the Blue House as the two girls there were still asleep. Our attempts failed, but fortunately the girls woke up about 5 - 10 minutes before we were due to leave for school.
As we had no swimming today (the strongest swim teachers were making their way back from the resort) we went to watch the sunset again. Attempt number 3 wasn't much more of a success. The sunset itself was nice, but there is always a bank of clouds hanging around on the horizon that make it impossible to see the sun slide into the water.
1/02/2012
Between school finishing and swimming we had a couple of the girls lead us to a souvenir shop on the island. It was a fantastic little place; the man opened the shop especially for us and we had a good look before buying a number of little trinkets and sarongs. The shop is very close to the Yellow House and is set back a bit from the soccer field that is in that part of the island. A word of advice: buy your souvenirs on Thinadhoo.... Souvenirs are expensive in Male' and easily over 4-5 times the price you'd pay on Thinadhoo. Don't get me wrong, the souvenirs at the shops in Male' are beautiful, but very much over-priced.
2/02/2012
Last day at school. Last swimming lesson. Last lunch and dinner and the cafe.
Around 12pm at school my teacher asked if I could leave the classroom for half an hour as they had something to set up. I knew it was going to be 'goodbye' orientated and spent my time eating chocolate and lollipops.
When I finally walked back up and peeped through the window my teacher shook her head frantically at me, so I quickly turned around. The next thing, one of my students is standing beside me, talking to me about the most random topics: grass, Australia, siblings, snorkelling... I asked her if she was sent outside to distract me. She replied with 'No' and great, big smile. Obviously she was.
When I walked into the classroom there was a large 'We miss you Chae Miss' on the whiteboard. I gave the kids and my teacher their presents, took some photos and then the bell rang. As I followed the kids downstairs I thought about how weird it was that I'd never see some of them again (the ones who didn't go to swimming anyway).
On that note, swimming was not fun. While we had hardly any kids, which meant that some of us could sit out for each lesson, they just went nuts. The choppiness of the water didn't help either. We somehow made it through the first session, the second session was controlled chaos. By the time the third session rolled around I was over swimming. I had done my share of sessions, it was cold and there weren't many kids, so a couple of us decided to finish early as there really was no point in us hanging around.
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