Top Ten School Highlights

1.Each day starts with a 30 minute assembly. The national anthem is sung, students say morning prayers and listen to any variety of announcements and or speeches. This is followed by 20 minutes of free reading. It's a nice slow start for us and gives us a chance to do any last minute prep.
2.Female P.E. teachers are butch here too. I thought that was kind of funny.
3.Teachers swat naughty students with bamboo sticks. Even better though, is that you will find students bringing replacements to the school for their teachers when one wears out.
The naughtiest thing we've seen at school is smoking in the bathrooms. Punishable we assume, by a swat.
4.We've seen teachers trimming student's hair and fingernails. Hygiene and appearance are important and monitored closely.
5.A student pointed at Tim's wrinkled shirt one day and snickered. The student playfully pointed out that I did a poor job ironing Tim's shirt, well the assumption anyway was that I had done it. The truth is, that morning Tim proudly held up his shirt and declared his mastery of ironing.
6.Dogs live on school grounds, some healthier than others. Unlike the students, dog hygiene and appearance are not important and are not monitored at all.
7.No one bats an eye when a grungy dog licks itself for the full 30 minute morning assembly.
Maturity check.....I have to fight off laughter. The students may be more mature than me.
8.Students clean the classrooms, school grounds, and our lunch dishes daily.
9.Tim and I will have to periodically speak at morning assembly. So far, we have only embarrassed ourselves once. I should mention that we've only gone twice.

Drum roll please...
10.Our all time favorite, we saw Ajarn Go (female P.E. teacher) rip a chin hair from a student's face. Tim looked over at me and asked if he had any strays he should take care of for fear he could be next. You can see a picture of her in the “Sports Day,” entry with Tim's footsal team.