We Have Textbooks

This is my Grade 11 & 12 Chemistry class "looking excited" as textbooks have arrived- two weeks after class has started.  Notice the bright orange cover and that each student has two volumes - there is a lot in the course (but all the text books are huge - and people stress about not having it - you must follow the text!!)
As the teacher I have one book and it has pictures on the front and is in colour. 
Copyright laws are very relaxed in Thailand.  So the school buys a Teacher Edition of the text and one copy of the student text.  They then send the student text off to be copied.  So one big book turns into two bigger books - black and white, no colour.  The students are only allowed to take volume one as volume two is yet to be processed, but I had put in a special asap request. Yeah we went to the top of the queue.
This happens for all subjects and apparently takes time as the books were ordered ages ago.  The Geometry texts are yet to arrive and the Grade 6 Science books have arrived but the first section is missing - no one knows where or how - its just one of those things.