For those of you getting ready to start back to school this week I thought I'd show you pictures of my school.

This is one of the hallways on the second floor. The classrooms are on the left and the railing overlooks the playground on the right.

This is the view from across the hall from my classroom. The playground is in the foreground and the new building construction is in the background on the right. The elementary school wing of the current building is on the left.

Construction is a little bit behind but we are currently scheduled to move into the new building in April.

Week three of school starts today. The school has 600 students in pre-k through grade 12. There are about twice as many high school kids in a grade than in the elementary grades. The student body is nearly all local Taiwanese kids with a handful of international students, most of whom are children of the faculty. KAS is less of an international school than I expected but I think the hope is that the international population will grow with the new campus. Kaohsiung is not the international city that Taipei is so it's hard to find expat families to send their children to KAS. But Kaohsiung is changing so the school is bound to change along with the city.