Education Since I am STILL waiting to begin the teacher training that I came to do, I am getting to know the education system. I visited some classes at a large secondary school. (See pictures a new friend gave me of it). Students were in desks that sit 2, squeeze 3, with 50 - 60 in a class (almost no way to learn names with several classes a day), no lights, large blackboard; the front of the room where teacher was most of the time had a 6 inch platform. Kids were bright, engaged, polite, yet pretty typical teenagers. Eagerness to answer questions is shown by raising hands and snapping fingers. That part was strange, pretty annoying to me. One class I saw outside in the shade (to be cooler?) were all sitting on the ground
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