First Day

Wednesday we both went to our schools expecting to teach. B goes to his "country school" every Wed, and it has a total of about 80 students. He was able to teach all three grades of middle school yesterday (7th-9th) without any problems. He can tell the difference b/t the city and country kids, as the latter are much more polite. H was scheduled to have 3 classes yesterday, but the students were in the middle of something else, so she sat at her desk in the teacher's lounge preparing lessons most of the day. We're still waiting on internet at our place, so luckily we can use it whenever we want at our schools.
We planned on getting internet today, but were discouraged to learn that since we are foreigners, we must pay 6 months in advance. So, we've got to pay about $225 up front in order for them to turn on our internet. Since we need to use a bank card, we have to go to the internet store, see if our card goes thru, and then on Friday they will hook it up if the card goes thru. The nice thing about our last city was that our directors were more than willing to help us with these sorts of things, but here our co-teachers aren't able to help us sign for the "native discount." So, we're getting used to it.