Time for school

So the time for school has descended upon Ghana. It has came up out of nowhere...and I am currently trying to figure out how school in Ghana is run. It is so vastly different than anything I have ever seen in the states, in that the children do all of the groundskeeping with their cutlasses (machetes) and proceed to clean the classrooms, etc. with supervision from the teaching staff. Students as young as 7-8 years old are coming to school with their cutlasses, and from what I've seen, most parents in America would not let their child of that age even touch a cutlass, much less take one to school. In America I'm sure you can get expelled for taking even a pocket knife to class. Also, the first week of school is over halfway gone and I have yet to step foot into a classroom, or get my teaching schedule. Hopefully by Monday of next week I'll have my first few lessons. I'll let you all know how they go...