Break Time 2010:7

English classes are held Monday through Saturday from 9 – 1 every day. Each class period is 50 minutes long. There’s a 10-minute break between the first and second and third and four class periods and a 20 minute “tea” break between the second and third class.

At break time students break off into groups. Some sit on the steps talking and joking with each other, always a ping pong match is played – usually doubles. Some students go in search of ripe mangos from the tree in the courtyard and still others find a patch of grass for a few minutes of silence or quiet conversation. Often discussion from class spills out into the hallways and occasionally theological debates evolve. It seems like in the past week there’s a been a lot of conversation about Martin Luther (generally not initiated by me).