WELL DONE!

The children at the little Zamtan school are so cute!  They now have 150 Kindergarten and first graders so the community got together and built a temporary open-air shelter so they could split the groups.  There is only one government school in the community and it is full and won't accept more students.  There are 3 community schools including ours but they all just do Kindergarten and first grade.  When we asked our teachers what happens after first grade they said, "they quit school (at the age of 7????) or come back to first grade again."  The parents are begging for the school to add 2nd grade next year so looks like we will be expanding.

When we visited the kindergarten class they were all attentively watching their teacher, counting in unison, saying A B C's etc.  When they  finished, they clapped their hands in unison and loudly chanted "WE'LL DONE! WELL DONE!  SUCH A GOOD GIRL/BOY!"  Absolutely adorable with 100 little brown-eyed charmers!