school

I realized that I haven't told you much about school. I'm not allowed to post pictures but here are some things that you might/ might not find interesting:

I have students from South Korea, the US, France, Czech Republic, Japan, the Phillipines, India and Canada.

I am the assistant coach for the school's swim team.

There is a gourmet coffee shop downstairs.

On Mondays and Fridays there's Thai food in the teacher's lounge and on Tuesdays and Thursdays there's Iranian food. Both are delicious and only $2.66. I try to limit it to just once a week, though because the food's a little heavy and the weight's not falling off here like I thought it would.

My teaching partner is a Kiwi and she's endlessly helpful and wonderful. I love her.

We can order cases of wine and beer through the purchasing department.

We have a week off in October and unlike our last school, we actually get the week off. We're going to Goa.

The middle school has a week without walls where we take the kids on a trip.

Rumor is there are sometimes rain days during monsoon season where the city gets so flooded no one can make it to school. Last year a teacher had to be rescued from her second story.

The kids here will actually sit and work quietly when I tell them too. It's amazing. Unlike anything I've ever seen.

Oh, and I'm starting a new list of hilarious kid writing beginning with, "he was always acting so goody-tutious."