One notable cultural difference in this part of the world compared with Europe is that men are very fond of holding hands. Male friends routinely sit and walk around hand in hand, and even sit on each other’s laps for the fun of it – even if there are plenty of chairs. Alastair’s especially glad he’s managed to escape this treatment so far since we saw two of the male teachers holding hands when one of them used his ‘engaged’ hand to have a good scratch of the crotch. The ladies also have come up with novel ways of passing the long evenings when there are power-cuts and the TV doesn’t work. We observed one of the female teachers having a good spot-popping session, surrounded by several friends and students all working on different carbuncles.
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