All the difference in the world!

Classes were held last week on half-day Wednesday, and Thursday. The rest of the time was spent in bored chatter in our seats while the teachers finished the report cards (they just ended quarterly exams). My schedule varies day-to-day, but my classes are: English, Hindi, Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Math (pronounced Max), and Playing Time twice a week. They double various classes on various days of the week, so we have 8 45-minute periods every day. The kids stay in the same classroom while the teachers move, so we won't move from behind our little desks (35 students crammed into one room) for hours at a time. We even stay in the same classroom for lunch, eating with the same people. Not sure how I'm supposed to meet other people this way, but that's not a problem because I have quite a job remembering just my classmates' names.

The style of teaching is different because they primarily use the textbooks which are each about 150 pages and need to be carried to and from school every day. A total of 15 pounds; Pa was confused and surprised when I literally went into the bathroom with them to weigh them, but I considered it important blog research that just had to be done. Back to the teaching, the periods are really short so the teachers stand there yelling the whole time, flying through the material. I can't understand what they are saying both because of the accent and the echo, and then also the echo of the students' yelling. A teacher will say a sentence, then repeat it and pause so the students all yell the word she's looking for and she keeps going. There is no such thing as raising your hand, its just everyone shouting out. Luckily for me, I covered all the material in the last two years, so I can keep up with the classes.