School in India

My first day of school. Well, it's definitely a different system here!
I woke up this morning at 7:00 a.m. and got ready so that we could leave the house by 7:40 a.m. The school that I am going to starts at 8:30 a.m. and you have to be in class by 8:20 a.m. The first subject that I was supposed to have was math, but (lucky enough!) the math teacher was absent, and so the English teacher came in and subbed. We spent the forty minutes of class time each making short speeches about a topic that the teacher chose. After that, my class had physics, but since I have such a big class, half of us just sat in a little courtyard for that period (most of the kids studied, but I didn't have anything to study). After that time, we came back to the classroom for chemistry- and oh my gosh was it hard! The material seems to be very much like what we learned in CHEM last year, but the teacher who taught it here made no sense to me at all! She just came into the room when the bell rang, and started writing a bunch of numbers, drawings and equations on the board. While she was writing she would say what she had written, but she didn't explain things or let us ask questions at all! It was so crazy!
After CHEM, the English teacher came back for our real English lesson, and once again- it's soooo different! The teacher came in and opened her book, and started to write on the board a table. When she finished drawing the table, she read aloud to us some words, and then their definitions and usage for us to copy down in our notebooks.
After English, the principal of the school came in for a period to teach us some life lessons (cool huh?). She talked about time management, and about choosing friends wisely. She also talked about not blaming other things for your faults, and instead finding the reasons inside ourselves.
I then went to Biology where the teacher handed back a test and then took down everyone's scores. (That's all we did)!
Then came Physics. The subject that I was dreading because I've never taken it before, and it went well! The teacher was very concerned that I get the help I needed to understand, and her accent wasn't as thick as some of the other teacher's.
The school itself is really nice. It sits on private grounds and there is a basketball and volleyball court, and also a field with goals for handball. The entire school is kinda outside too! The classrooms have no doors, and there are windows that are open. All of the hallways are open to the outdoors too.
I then rode the bus home with my host brother Surya and am now getting ready for a Rotary meeting tonight (my first) where I'll make a presentation.
Sorry I don't have photos of the school yet! I'll make sure to take some as soon as I can get my camera charged!