Luc's First Test

In addition to the challenges already described in the previous post,
my first test session was particularly difficult to administer. It
coincided with a tropical deluge. As soon as it began to pour outside,
rain started dripping onto students' desks and tests, creating mayhem
in the test environment I was carefully trying to control. Students
had to get up and shuffle the seating arrangement as best as possible
given the constraints inherent in a very crowded room with several
major leaks. The thunderous sound of rain crashing on tin roofing also
made it impossible to monitor whispering or other forms of sound-based
cheating. As if that wasn't crazy enough, a health brigade showed up
mid-test to vaccinate all the females against tetanus! Some students
were very dramatic about receiving the shot. I tried to tell them
about how many vaccines we had to get during training, but this didn't
seen to console them or get their minds focused back on their English
test. I was glad when that one was over; all my other tests went much
more smoothly