Back at School

So first off, yes; I'm getting increasingly bad at keeping this thing up to date. Part of it, I suspect, is that the longer I'm here, the less certain things surprise me, so that something that would have seemed shocking months ago (like the school kitchen blowing away the other day) now gets relegated to the lowly life of a facebook post. But, this is no excuse for leaving you, dear reader (readers?) out of the loop. So, here comes another quick round of updates from my life in the Kingdom in the Sky.

The day-to-day life at school is much the same as before. My math and physics students are doing well, though we are now a few weeks behind schedule due to some out of the blue snow days at the beginning of August. Recently, we have sent those students home who, to date, have yet to pay their school fees in full. This resulted in my class sizes dropping from 50-60 kids per class to 20-30. Teaching with all those empty desks in the room is a little sad. Knowing that those students (most of whom are very clever and hard working) are missing out on part of their education because of money issues is a little sobering. However, with such great student-teacher ratios, I am able to address everyone's questions and spend individual time with almost every student each class period! So I guess my current strategy is to simply focus on doing the best I can for those kids who are still here and hope that those others find their way back to school soon.