River side?

I just found out that my school, SMK Methodist is at the side of the river... which brings to mind one of the earlier sayings of a particularly annyoing teacher in MES...

"Eh, Samuel, your school is beside a river right?"

Not exactly in a curious or I-reall-want-to-know way but in a sarcastic and all-Sarawak-schools-beside-a-river-and-no-electricity-or-water-right? way... in actual fact this school is next to a darn river too. Eesh.