Today we asked a tour guide to help up set up a school visit! Sam, the tour guide, led us on his motorbike as we pedaled bicycles through the city and along a highway (where we demanded to stop and purchase bright yellow and red construction helmets -- what the locals use for motorbike helmets -- we are so local!) and rice paddies to a local primary school. While the school was not open for students, the headmaster gave us a tour! The school housed 46 students, ages 6 to 12. The students come from five of the neighboring villages and, while classes do not start until nine in the morning, the students often arrive at seven because they love being there so much.
The headmaster, who was also the Chinese and English teacher, lived on the campus of the school and presented the staff room and classrooms with pride -- not to mention the ping pong table!
Just beyond the school was a public park where you could walk up 835 steps to the "Moon Rock." There was a beautiful view of the river valley and we met a local teacher there who explained that many of the teachers in the Yangshuo area travel to the village from more rural areas for work, and then return home for the summer.
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