Posted on 12 January 2012 at 16:05h

Today the electricity was switched off at school so that a new fibre optic cable could be strung from the pylons. Most of the teachers decided to carry on as normal to show their students what it must be like in countries with no electricity. I decided to show my students what it’s like in countries with no school.

Even before the power went off at exactly 10 am we had some mini power cuts of our own in the physics department. We were doing the specific heat capacity with a kettle lab and the circuit breaker kept tripping every time all 9 kettles were switched on at the same time. I knew there had to be a reason why the lab was only supposed to hold 16 students. I always thought it was just the number of chairs.