Week something or other - just another week in BD

Well, we went to Mymensingh again this week, up on Tuesday morning (9:30 arrival) and back on Wednesday afternoon (15:30 departure).
As usual, there was a freshly destroyed bus on the side of the road, in each direction. The number of road accidents involving buses is horrific.
Last week, Jeanette & I travelled separately to Mymensingh, and she asked if I saw the crashed bus. When I said I had, she asked if the bloke wa still sitting on top of it. I gave her a puzzled look, the bus I saw had its roof on the road, next to a big tree, with the bus another 50 metres down the road and anyone sitting on it would have had a nasty fright. She was talking about a different one, on its side, in a pond nect to the road!
The weather is definitely changing, cooler now in the evenings, still hot & humid during the day, but without rain, the dust and pollution is certainly picking up - and there is worse to come. There are brickworks throughout Bangladesh, and they make lots of ... bricks. (Who would have thunk!),
This is important as Bangladesh has very little gravel or rock, so hordes of people get paid incredibly poorly to convert bricks into rubble. The brickworks are invariably situated on the flood plains and covered with water during the wet season, dug out after the wet season and put to work at about the same time as the rain stops (to clean the air). The brickworks use a poor quality local coal for fuel, so we wait, with baited breath, for the myriad of black soot and ash belching chimneys to stir to life in the coming weeks.
Enough about the weather.
Jeanette started her English Language (for report writers) this week. Task 1 is to identify the best candidates. She had 2 groups of 15 that she worked with and ran them through a number of exercises to find out their English Language skills. She is currently marking these (do teachers ever stop marking?). She was a little uncertain how to do the English language training, but having started, she a strategy is developing (in true Bangla fashion).
I (Stephen) am still getting the wiring correct so that the network work can proceed. Computers are a disruptive technology, and there is no way to be contextually sensitive with them. Either you do things correctly or they don't work!
Actually if you do some things incorrectly, they mostly work, but cause obscure problems later. This is worse than not working, because when you point out to the locals that it is done incorrectly, and they point out that it works – therefore it doesn't matter. Later when there are obscure problems, they are puzzled why they are there (the problems that is)
So much learning is by rote or empirical (trial and error), that the only way to implement or encourage change is by demonstration – and the benefit has to be immediate.
Appealing to any sort of theoretical concepts will eventually drive you under the covers in a foetal position.
We are thankful that the weather is cooling. The A/C in the lounge blew its compressor last week and the exchange rate is down yet again.
C'est la vie

Cheers, from Steve & Jeanette