Chemistry Class is not fun

Well, I thought Chemistry class was hard in high school, but trying to learn it in another language with no textbook in a hot classroom is even harder. I finally got to the school the other day to observe class, after having missed one because the teachers had a meeting together, and another because my student had other work to do during class.
As I had already learned from the PIECES blog, the classroom had little lighting, and the only ventilation was breezes from the windows. I had a lot of trouble focusing on the teacher, because I could hear other students in other classrooms. This became a big problem when he wanted to dictate a law, and I couldn´t hear what he said. Since I´m more of a visual learner, I would have been lost in class, or copying someone else´s notes all the time. They did have a good white board, which he used to write down changes from grams to moles and molecules and such. Not everyone had a periodic table, so that was getting passed between groups, too.
Now I´m trying to put myself in their shoes. The only way I passed physics class in high school was by obeying my professor´s rule of keeping 15 pages ahead of him in the textbook every day. As much as I often did not use textbooks for some college classes, this was only when the professor gave out great handouts for class. There were no handouts in this class. It seems that it would be extremely difficult to learn when your teacher asks you to go research the topic for the next class. You will then either need to bring a bottle of trash to the Hacienda Merida to use their internet for an hour (thank goodness they have this, or I don´t know how some of the kids would get work done), be lucky enough to have the textbook for that week, or find some other way to get the information. This often encourages copying, and I think that the teacher started the class with a lecture on what a problem that is.
Next, try to think about what kind of learner you are. There are auditory learners, who do just fine with a lecture and get a lot out of it. There are visual learners, who need to see something in order to learn it, and then there are kinetic learners, who need to be doing something in order to learn a topic. Without all of the awesome videos and demonstrations my teachers and professors had in chemistry and physics, I would have been lost forever. At least without a drawing.
In conclusion, the question is, how do we get these kids some textbooks (at the very least), and then, how can the teaching methods be improved to make classes like chemistry more digestible? I don´t even think the idea of chemistry lab can be in their mind right now, as chemicals are expensive.