By afternoon, the classroom had changed.
The iron-sheet roof held the heat.
The air grew heavy.
Attention slowed.
Lessons continued.
But concentration shifted—
not away from learning,
but under the weight of the environment.
The building was unfinished.
Open window frames.
Uneven flooring.
At times, rain entered.
At others, movement outside pulled attention away from the lesson.
Nothing had stopped.
But the conditions had never fully settled.
And when conditions do not settle,
attention adjusts with them.
Learning remains.
But it does not remain unaffected.