My new life in Madhya Pradesh

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Last month on 13th I moved to Madhya Pradesh and since then so many changes have taken place in my life. My new school , where I work now, has provided my mother and me a descent place to live in. My mother complains about it all the time because we share our bunglaw with an Egyptian who stays upstairs and is almost of my age. But he is a peace loving guy and is nowhere close to our Indian neighbours who live in the house next to ours. But he is a guy and my mother has a problem. We are in India, you see.The school is at a ten minutes distance from our place by bus. The school bus comes to pick us up on every week day at seven 'o' clock sharp. The insomniac me is a little restless now because I wake up really early now a days and even earlier now that the summer camp is on. I teach English and SST to classes four, five and six in school. I am the mentor of the public speaking course in English and Personality development, in the summer camp program now. The best part is I am learning and teaching. Teaching is tiring but is probably one of the best jobs if you are really a teacher and if you do not work just for money. Now about the new place. MP is hot and dry, peaceful and quiet. People are very conservative here and that is exactly where it is posing a greater challenge to me. Nevertheless, it isn't all bad for a beginner like me and unless we travel places we will never know how things are like in stranger places. Experience as they say, is significant. I have other things to share too, but i have to plan for my class tomorrow and I take my work seriously. So a bye for now.

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