Very cold, with unidentified body secretions

Minus 10 on the bike to work this morning - not the day to forget gloves...or hat, scarf, woolly jumper and all! Wow. Bitterly cold, and the playground frozen hard as a ginger nut biscuit!

I became the "Human Hokkairo" as I am famously warm - radiate heat like a geothermal hotspot -

and there were numerous tears at play, with frozen fingers & hard landings aplenty. Be careful?

Before we got into class-mode proper this morning, I was doing my usual walk about, looking for mischief when I discovered a deposit on Chi-sensei's floor. Squishy, brown and somewhat toxic, and suddenly quite alarmed I might have walked in it/very nearly picked it up. Haven't remembered the Thailand classroom turd debacle since forever!

"My teacher, there's a stool in your classroom." 

"Thank you. I hope there are plenty."

"No, my teacher. There's an extra stool."

"Great. Then everybody will be happy."

"Erm. It's in the corner."

"That's lovely. I'll be along soon."

Of course the teacher was being a bit dim, and the students were trying to be as polite as possible. There was, of course, a cable of shite the size of a child's arm, stinking out my bamboo classroom!

Cheery Chi-sensei explains an art project after an earlier flu warning to cover mouths etc when coughing. I was not sure about the project, which appeared to be large scale monster faces, teams of 5/6 doing a face part each & sticking onto card. Takes ages but end result funny & well rounded off by the teacher.

For lunch the kid with drippingly snotty hands moves my cup, fingers all over the rim. The nose-picker lad who could represent Japan in the snot Olympics, delivers my rice, thumbs in the bowl. Hello another infection!

That is, if I survive the day with my crown jewels intact...Hit in the bollocks x3 and fed up with the abuse. Said so, sotto but menacing voce to the main culprit. A message that will no doubt be totally forgotten by this time tomorrow. Also fed up being a battering ram target. Can I get a bit of protection from the teachers please? I mean, when I was actually bullied at school I never got hit this often...

Looks like taiko practice after lunch.