CHEM/JEM LUANG SCHOOL

CHEM LUANG SCHOOL/JEM LUANG SCHOOL

I spent the day at Chem Luang School. Some people call it Jem Luang School. I dunno. Both sound fine to me!

One of the girls who was sponsored by the HRDC just graduated from college with a degree in English, so she goes to Chem/Jem Luang School on Tuesdays and Thursdays, and Sahamit School on Wednesdays. Chem/Jem Luang school is run by the government, and all of our elementary school & middle school kids go there. Sahamit School is a private Christian school, and even though it’s for all ages, only our high schoolers go there.

Okay. So Radri asked me to go with her to school this week, and that’s all the information I get. We get to the first grade class, and she asks me to teach them a lesson. Umm…

I miraculously came up with things to do. I don’t know how I did it, but I have a feeling that all of life’s events up to this point have somehow equipped my quick thinking skills. We had a blast!

Then off to second grade. Yupin & Yupa’s class. So much fun! After that, fifth grade. Here is where hilarity comes into the picture. Since these kids were older, we had them ask me questions, then I asked them questions.

“Do you have any brothers or sisters?” “Is your sister younger or older?” “Oh, is your sister beautiful??” [me: yes, very!] “Oooo!!” “Do you have a boyfriend?” [me: what do you think?] “YES, of course!” [me: nope] “YAYYY!!!” Etc etc.

In one class, a girl came in holding a big cicada. Umm, what?

School was fun. The teachers are great. And it was a blast seeing the kids from the center. A lot more relaxed in some respects than the schools I went to, but it’s amazing that they even have school.

But it was raining this morning. Some kids ran off to school, but others stayed behind because the roads are really horrible. Unfortunately, none of the 4 wheel drive trucks were here, so we couldn’t drive them to school. Once the sky cleared up, though, we piled them into a truck…However, ALL of the boys had already changed out of their school uniforms. Hahaha.
Oh, and I wore flip flops today. Why? I don’t know. But I definitely stepped in MUD. Since we take off our shoes before entering the classrooms, I walked into each one with a foot covered in dry mud.