The chickens are wild fowl, they have to find their own water.

I get a great deal of pleasure out of talking about weather with my students. The Japanese students are usually familiar with the idea of cold weather because Japan has plenty of it. My Chinese student is from Taiwan. She is well educated so she is familiar with the concept of winter and has even seen snow on TV.

My Indonesian student comes from a very small island and has no familiarity at all with cold. For her it is something she finds when she opens the refrigerator. She is cute. She is pregnant with the baby due next month. She's in her twenties and looks it but her naive outlook on the world makes her so much more vulnerable. We have a picture dictionary at the school and we were using it to discuss the American lifestyle shown in its pages. She was astonished to see pictures of men doing housework. It never occurred to her that men were capable or could be persuaded to do that work.

When she started with me she was so shy she could barely raise her eyes from the tabletop. Now we laugh and joke and enjoy our time together so much that she is always surprised to find the hour is gone.

This is such a great job.