Our School site

So we thought we would quickly take some pictures of our immediate "school" area. We have space on the second floor of a two story building on the Vietnam National University. (Dai Hoc ngoai ngu) except there are some squiggles and dots above and below some letters.

We have a total of 5 small rooms, one office, one teachers' workroom, one student lounge, and two classrooms. The rooms are small and are a bit loud but functional. Lisa and I usually get to school via taxi for about $1.25. When the cooler air arrives in the fall, we hope, we'll ride our bike to school. To get home we sometimes take a taxi with one student who lives past our street, we get out and walk about a mile to our apartment. Today we took a public bus and packed ourselves on with about 14o others! It was so crowded I couldn't put both feet flat on the floor, my left foot was just toes! Getting off such a bus is an exercise in pushing and squeezing.

We bang the drum to mark the beginning and ending of class.

An experiment my students are performing. The one in the foreground is to see if milk would cause seeds to germinate faster than water. No. but it did produce a large population of writhing maggots. Nice.

Lisa in one of the classrooms.

View from our balcony/covered hallway.

Hallway with two classroom doors on the right.

The office and the teachers' room are on the left.

In the teachers' room. Thuy, one of the four Vietnamese teachers, John, the English teacher, and Lisa.