Fun to Start, then School

You may be in Africa if your tro-tro driver has to stop or slow down for cattle, chickens, or goats crossing the road. You KNOW you are in Africa when your driver has to slow or stop for the 10 monkeys to cross the road! :) Finally saw my monkeys and it was while I was in a car, hope to see more!
Here are some of the road signs that can be seen around Ghana:
Rumble strips ahead (a set of three or more speed bumps),
Overspeeding kills,
Inner land for overtaking (passing),
Excessive overtaking kills,
Slow down- ____ # persons killed here (updated every mile or so)
                                                                          School
    Despite signing up to work in an orphanage (I am doing this too), my main "job" is teaching at a school. Here in Ghana every orphanage has to be connected to a school (the one I am at quite literally is attached), so that the children are still receiving an education. We have kids at our school from one years old through 12 years old. I am working in both the 1st and 2nd grade classrooms. Though there are paid teachers (very little pay) that are locals, we volunteers are the ones doing most of the teaching for the 1st graders especially.
    The teachers are not much older (one is actually a year younger) than me and are students as well. They are trying to earn money, so they can return to university. So, the teachers are not actually certified teachers, therefore making both them and us volunteers on the same level of knowledge for many things. The 3rd-5th graders are all in one class because the 4th & 5th grade teacher left shortly before I arrived. The teacher for the 3rd-5th graders is only 20 years old and has no volunteers in his classroom helping out.
     Culturally, life is very different down here, shocker I know. Kids do not have respect for anyone, even adults. The kids are free to beat each other, both girls and guys, and for no apparent reason half the time. In schools here teachers are allowed to also hit the students. This can be done with there hands or the long thick sticks they carry around. Even when I am ready to give up and leave the kids because of their behavior, I cannot and will not hit the kids.
  
I am sorry to cut this short, but I have got to go. I will continue explaining the school when I return, sometime in the next few days.