Our School

Our school is wayyyy out in the country in a rural town called Sam Khok. It is very different from some of the other schools our company works in (for example the Sacred Heart Bangkok which is 11 floors with an olympic sized swimming pool on the fourth floor ) and is therefore very different from schools we are used to back home. Here is one of the classrooms. Notice that the windows do not have any glass in them (therefore no air conditioning) and instead just have wooden shutters. This can make things pretty noisy if the band is practicing outside!

 

 The picture above is the courtyard outside the Ideal office. Some of the kids hang out here between classes (or during classes when they decide to show up late) or for lunch. There are several stray dogs who hang around this area hoping to get treats from the students!

The picture below is one of the ground floor open air classrooms. These classrooms don't have windows of any kind, let's hope it doesn't rain!

This is the beautiful temple beside our school. Inside there are peacocks, flowers, fruit and of course monks. We are told that one of the monks can tell your future! One of our co-workers wants us to go and ask if we can have our future foretold.

This is a picture of Hannah's school under water. We will have to post a picture this week since we are finally opening the school on Monday (at least that was the hope last week)!