Kids & the bathroom

Very full after a delicious lunch. Waiting around for my next class. I should be preparing but procrastination and laziness are overcoming me and I'm on the puter. Anyway, I went to wash my dishes and since we don't have a kitchen (our lunch room is a converted classroom) we use the sink in the only female bathroom on our floor. As I was washing, I noticed both stalls were occupied. The first student came out of her stall, startled to see me washing my dishes and hurried out. The 2nd student eventually followed, she at least said, "hello Kimberly Teacher" before departing. At that moment, a strange thought occurred to me, neither of the students flushed their toilets and neither of them washed their hands. I thought maybe they didn't want to disrupt my dish washing, but they didn't even glance at the sink or shift around uncertain of what to do next. Perhaps that's why many of us foreigners are always sick or on the brink of being sick. There's not much etiquette for covering one's mouth when coughing or sneezing and apparently, kids don't really find it necessary to wash their hands (or flush the toilets??). Perhaps this isn't a normal occurrence and these two girls were in a big hurry. Mulayo (I don't know).