will you?

Those little angels possess pour souls and they are innocent. Do you think so? Though they're naughty at times, they are still no evils. They're just a piece of white cloth and those around them are those who own the brushes to paint them either gorgeous or hedious.

When you are dealing with little angels, you're indirectly dealing with their precious future. From that small figures you can never imagine what they'll turn into as you'll never know what they'll be facing with when you're not there to guide and protect them.

That's what I feel towards one of my little angels.

I think I better leave her name unknown and let just her unfortunate life be the introduction.

After few weeks of teaching the students, I was then being informed by the class teacher that one of my students is medically conformed as HIV positive.

The student whom I'll refer as K doesn't know about that painful thruth and so do her friends. Can you imagine what will happen if the secret leak out? Those little angels will definitely tell their parents and petition might be up on the school board to expell that poor K. I know that it might not be fair for other little angels to be placed in such dangerous circumstances of being accidentally infected when they are out of reach from the teachers.

Yet, K's parents together with the school are paying extra care on this issue. K is not allowed to go to school when she's sick and teachers always have their eagle eyes on to monitor K's movement around the school.

From my reading, note that:

"You can live with an HIV infected person in a very normal way, just like another healthy person. You can sleep with him/her, talk to him/her, eat with him/her etc. You would only have to be careful of any liquid secretions from his/her body like blood, etc and You cannot have marital relations with an infected person. You can eat in the same plate and drink from the same glass".

Since HIV does not easily affect others, therefore I think it won't do you any harm by just being in the same school with an HIV infected person.

Nowadays people are well educated to understand the situation. Therefore, isolating those who are infected is no longer common.

Give this little K a chance to breathe the fresh air, will you?

Read this conversation. It was in the staff room when I was in front of my laptop working on my lesson plan. Note that I was extremely under pressure at that moment until K came by...

K: Teacher teacher. bukak la lagu.

Me: Takleh. laptop ni takde lagu. teacher busy ni.awk pegi sane main pingpong.

(K smiled and walked away)

Me: K..sini. meh la sini borak2 dgn teacher.

(K walked towards me n smiled as usual)

Me: K..bape ye awak dapat untuk ujian BI aritu? ingat lg tak?

K: hehe...tak ingat la teacher.

Me: hah? tak ingat? baru je lepas pun tak ingat ke?

K: hehe..tak..

(Actually I knew her mark coz I was the one who set the paper and I was the marker)

Me: okay la.dah tu subject lain awk dapat bpe? sains awk dpt bpe?

K: ermm..30 (and she smiled)

Me: huh? 30? fail tu. dah tu subjek ape yg awk lulus. awk rase subjek ape plg senang?

K: BM.

Me: awk dpt bpe BM?

K: 56 (smiled)

Me: 56 tu byk gak. awk ade dpt A tak test kalini?

K: takde.

Me: awk penah dpt A tak dlm ujian?

K: tak penah.

Me: lol..nape tak penah? haaaa...awk tak study ye kat umah.

K: study la teacher.

Me: yeke ni awk study.awk study camne?mak awk ajar ke?

K: tak..sy bljr sndri.

Me: mak awk tak ajar eh?mak awk keje ye?

K: tak...mak sy suri umah.

Me: owhh..pastu ayah awk plak keje ape?

K: ayah saye jage parking kat Central. (and she continued smiling)

Me: owhhh...dah tu awk dtg skolah cmne dah ayah awk keje?

K: sy dtg ngn ayah S (another of my student)

Me: owhhh...ayah S tak bz la ye. ayah S plak keje ape?

K: ayah S keje sapu sampah kat flat teacher.

Me: ooo... ok la. awk g la main pingpong.

(and ran away...joining her other friends to play pingpong)

Whom to be blamed? Some of us are not born fortunate... mind that =,)