2005-11-30 - 2:02 p.m.
Ahhhh, our hectic life. Some days it really is difficult, and some days it makes me wish I wasn't a buddhist so I could revel in someone else's discomfort and heart ache. But I try to be a good buddhist. I try to not gloat, and say 'sucks to be you!" gleefully.
Let me explain. over the last 10 days there has been very quiet statements to some teachers to "not have students visit." Now all of these teachers happen to be christian and missionary. I have been asked by several of these teachers if I knwo what it is about because they have been told very quietly, word of mouth, but nothing official. Now I have tried to come up with plausible explainations but they sound lame to me so I have waited, and we just got the news today.
The PSB (public security bureau, ie secret police) have been going around looking for christian missionaries actively promoting religion outside the "official" locations. And sure enough many of these teachers have "informal" bible studies in their rooms. Well that has been squashed, and in fact the most zealous christian missionary here wsa the one to break the news to the "faithful." He looked so broken down, and depressed I almost felt sorry for him. almost.
So they can meet in the rooms, and can have visitors but the topic cannot turn to religion unless it is at the local offical chuch. This may not sound like much, but it is a very big deal It actually puts the religion where it is supposed to happen, not in my hallways, or out when I'm getting coffee with my students. And it actually means our school is finally trying to follow the LAWS of the country we are in. go figure.
And with the proposed changes I hear are going to be coming to the "power structure" in the foreign teachers, we may actually be trying to be a "real" school.
but it still makes me want to go stand and jump up and down and go "tee-hee" just a little bit.
Will
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