I’m having
so much fun with the kids!!!
I’m not a
teacher but I can teach them some basic English in some funny way, making up
stories and letting them draw – the most fundamental activity for children. If
only I didn’t have to improvise on the spot filling in for an absent teacher.
Instead of having the teachers observing prepared and planned lesson conducted
in more “western” way, I need their help to put the children in line ‘cause I
can’t handle these little buggers J Now I know that I couldn’t be a
teacher.
These “new
methods” are too new for the teachers. I underestimated how shockingly
different is must have been for them and how hard it is for them to think out
of the box.
I enjoy very
much spending an hour or 2 with the kidos. Boys are just next to me. They come
back from school after 5pm and often time they would go play volleyball,
football, cricket or some of their games like Cabbody (no clue how to spell
it). I’d join them or sit with the others who don’t play and “talk”. I don’t
know how we manage to communicate but yet again, we are having good time and
laugh together. One time when I was there, their care taker (also an “old boy”,
a chap of 28) sang, played drams
and the boys dances like med :-)
We had a great laugh, they showed me their plantation.
When I go to
the children's village I have so much fun playing with the little ones. They
have playground so we were running and getting wild there. I must admit I got a
soft spot for two little sisters: Sathia (8) and Uverani (6). You will probably
see them a lot in the pictures, especially that they are dynamic and jumpy and
know how to get some attention J
The kidos
feel that I adore them. And they take it with a great joy which makes me happy
in return :-)
One Sunday I
was doing yoga on the rooftop of my guesthouse when some boys came to spot
birds and draw them. They were curious what I was doing and asked me to show
them some yoga. I did and right away they tried themselves. I helped them a bit
and they were so thrilled! They were very interested and we did some more.
Viknesh did even the pose that I’ve been working on for 2 years…
I take on a
project with girls in the Girls Town to make little pillows for the children’s
dolls play. It turned out that they have a sawing machine there.
They kindly
got it fixed for this purpose. It is beautiful old Singer machine J
The girls
were so keen to learn! They were delighted to try and some of them managed
right away to create these little pillows. The next time I came, the girls
brought their clothes to be mended!!! Now I was delighted J Firstly
because it shows how they care about their look and clothes (the holes in their
uniforms were not little…). Secondly because they right away use the machine in
very practical and concrete way. We spend loooong hours stitching their trousers
and nighties.
That’s what
I can conclude about those youngsters after a month of being among them: they
are incredibly trustful, open and welcoming (or maybe simply tolerant). They
were always very respectful and polite toward me, always “good morning, sister”
J Quite confidently they would start speaking
to me although we have no common language. They are curious and enthusiastic,
ready to learn or at least to have a go whatever you present to them.
Compare to
village children that I saw up in the mountains, I see that “our” youngsters
have more confidence, curiosity and are more outgoing. They are more exposed to
different values (basic hygiene, importance of education, etc) and activities
of all kinds (sports, bird watching, contact with foreigners due to the
sponsoring etc). Of course, it does not counterbalance growing up with their
parents and siblings. But for those children who don’t have this option, they
have great one in JHC/BTS.
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