We're going to start the Tufty Club...

One of the most frustrating things about driving here is the complete disregard shown by pedestrians. They really do have no self awareness and will just step out in front of a car, or cross a road without looking at all!! So to counter this Stewart and I intend to found The Tufty Club (Karachi Branch)!

For those of you who are a little younger than I, (yeah, yeah I’m not that old) then the Tufty Club was a club for children that taught road safety and as a child both Stewart and I were members and had our Tufty Club Badge! It was one of the public information films that did the rounds in the 70’s. Along with ‘Charlie says’ it taught children how to cross the road and not to play with matches!!

Life has been extremely busy over the last few days. We are now only 8 days from the end of term and there is so much still left to do. We have been writing reports, recruiting new staff and I am still trying to write next year’s timetable. Alongside all of this we are still running A level exams, which meant I had to be at school until 7pm tonight.

Also I have been conned into being the male teacher at the Year 6 sleepover tomorrow night, so that means that after the A level biology exam finishes at 7pm I get to join 20 over excited 11 year olds for a night in school! In fact it won’t be too bad as at least I am guaranteed power all night, which is more than can be said about my place at the moment.

As previously reported I have both a generator and UPS at my new apartment. Unfortunately, the UPS is playing up, and although Ali Electrician came to look at yesterday and declared it healthy, he was wrong! I reported this to Habib this morning and he came round to the apartment with Ali and they decided the man from the UPS shop needed to look at it. I told Habib I would at school until 7 and he said that it would be sorted by then!! However, T.I.P. (This Is Pakistan) and of course Ali and the UPS men didn’t turn up until 8.45pm. They have now removed the UPS and I will get it back in the morning Inshallah!

So, if or should I say when, the power goes off tonight the generator will need to be switched on. At the old place this happened by magic (or by Faroukh) now as we have no chowkidar I have to go down and do it myself!!

I am now really looking forward to my trip to the UK, it will be really good to catch up with all my friends and family that I haven’t seen for nearly 10 months. It will also be great to get away from the heat which is now starting to be unbearable away from the air conditioning, yesterday it was 40 plus degrees outside and I am actually missing the cold and the rain! I am trusting that Manchester can live up to it reputation and there will be rain for my arrival…