My Schedule.

  It's about a half hour ride on the back of a motorbike to school.  I get to school  a little after 8:00 a.m. Morning assembly starts about 8:15.  The students sing the national anthem while they raise the flag. Students then lead Buddhist and Muslim chants.  The students body is about 2/3 Buddhist and 1/3 Muslim.  The same students lead both chants with out regard to the religion of the leaders and all students participate in both chants.(The Muslim girls do not wear scarves so it's had to know who is Muslim but sometimes their names give them away, e.g. Farouk.)  Then a 'Thai word for the day' and an 'English word for the day'  are presented.  The students then sit down and a teacher gives a lecture to all the students to which no one listens.  At 8:30 classes begin, theoretically,...give or take several minutes.
  From 8:30 (?) until 9:30 I teach 3rd grade one day and 5th grade the next.  After a half hour off I then teach 4th grade one day and 6th grade the next from 10:30-11:30,  11:30 is lunch time for the teachers so I join them.  After lunch I call the tuk-tuk and it comes about the time afternoon assembly begins.  A very nice schedule.
   Yesterday at afternoon assembly the students were all sitting on the floor in rows by grade and gender.  All were chanting something from the oldest, 6th grade, to the youngest, 1st grade. It turned out that they were chanting the multiplication tables through 12...."2 times 2 is 4, 2 times 3 is 6, 2 times 4 is 8......

3rd grade at their desks.

3rd grade at their desks.

5th graders helping the cook serving lunch. (rice).  Students do much of the work at school very cheerfully.

5th graders washing dishes.

Lined up for lunch.