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Thursday, November 25, 2004
I cant believe its only been a couple of days at school. So far, its been amazing. These kids are the definition of cute and they just have boundless energy. But no matter how tired I am, every time I see the children they just put a smile on your face. I wish I can put up photos of these children.
A normal day would be to wake up at 8am (I know! *gasp* you surprised? Somehow in India it doesnt seem as early as in Australia) to take a shower, make breakfast, and get changed. Then I run to school to get to my first remedial class at 9am. The school is only 10 min walk away! Soo good. I teach the Saturn class in the morning. They label each class according to the planets. So kindergarten is Sun, first grade is Mercury, second grade is Venus, and so on (did I get the planets in the right order?). Anyways, I teach the kids from the Saturn, Earth, Jupiter and Mars class. I love it! After my first class I go to the Parikrma office to help with the admin work and then go back to the school to teach again. The rest of my classes are pretty much back-to-back until the end of school. At 3.30pm I would go on the school bus with the children to the nearest orphanage. The school bus resembles a zoo. The kids are climbing all over the seats and you! Parikrma operates two orphanages. The one closest to the school houses 50 kids. Its one big room and they all sleep on the floor. Yesterday we had the best time playing with the kids. Oh my gosh, you should have seen when we took out twister. It was so funny. Like they could not take in turns so like 15+ kids just started jumping around on the mat. When we finally taught them how to play they started exclaiming *He’s out! My turn* *He pushed me down*. Haha it was hilarious watching them. We finally played a modified game of twister. What else did we do? OoH remember when you are young and you sit in a circle and play the hand game that goes: e-maka dicio o, e-Oh, Mario Mario, Eh Eh boom boom boom, eh eh boom boom boom, 1, 2, 3 *slap* Okay that just looks funny written out. I gotta sing it to you. Yea we played that. We also played London bridge is falling down, Ring a round, Duck, Duck Goose. I love children games. Memories. Ahh. Oh that reminds me of other childrens games…Like stuck in the mud, cops and robbers, doctor doctor or girly games using elastic bands: England Ireland Scotland Wales, Inside Outside Donkey tails (does anyone know what I am talking about? But I need to find huge elastic bands) or rope games,Teddy bear, Teddy bear turn around. Lols. Once you remember one game, you think of more and more. We normally leave the orphanage around 6pm and get home around 7pm and cook dinner. Last night I slept at 9.30pm!! how early?! But we were too exhausted. Tomorrow I get to visit Hope Home the second orphanage which is smaller and further away. So Stephanie and I will overnight there! One big slumber party with 16 kids! Woo hoo
Oh some random Kodak moments. I was helping one of the kids with her homework yesterday and when she got it right I was like give me a high five. I put up my hand, she looked at me and ecstatically hit my hand 5 times with her hand. Lols. Why is it called high five anyway? The kids asked me to sing an Australian song! Me sing a song?! I dont think anyone has heard me to sing. And let alone an Australian one! But I couldn’t refuse the kids who kept pleading…so I sang Waltzing Matilda. Actually I had to hum the rest of the song because I didn’t know the lyrics. They next wanted to hear the Aussie anthem! I so didn’t know.. all I know are last few words .. “advance Australia fare” hehe. So I asked them to sing their Indian anthem. These kids loved to sing. We spent a good half an hour singing Christmas carols (over and over again). Oh yea, I took a computer class today (Dell donated some 20 computers). No worries, my water bottle was far enough away. not that I had time to drink because these kids are crazy about computers. We still havent got kids software so all they do is play on Paint, Microsoft Word, Pinball, Solitaire (all the usual computer games). It is soo hard to control 20 kids with computers. Every second there is a kid shouting Akka help me!. The way they play on the computers something is going to break...soon! they love playing with the D-drive (even though there is no CD)!
Okays, Im off now! shall write hopefully soon.
A normal day would be to wake up at 8am (I know! *gasp* you surprised? Somehow in India it doesnt seem as early as in Australia) to take a shower, make breakfast, and get changed. Then I run to school to get to my first remedial class at 9am. The school is only 10 min walk away! Soo good. I teach the Saturn class in the morning. They label each class according to the planets. So kindergarten is Sun, first grade is Mercury, second grade is Venus, and so on (did I get the planets in the right order?). Anyways, I teach the kids from the Saturn, Earth, Jupiter and Mars class. I love it! After my first class I go to the Parikrma office to help with the admin work and then go back to the school to teach again. The rest of my classes are pretty much back-to-back until the end of school. At 3.30pm I would go on the school bus with the children to the nearest orphanage. The school bus resembles a zoo. The kids are climbing all over the seats and you! Parikrma operates two orphanages. The one closest to the school houses 50 kids. Its one big room and they all sleep on the floor. Yesterday we had the best time playing with the kids. Oh my gosh, you should have seen when we took out twister. It was so funny. Like they could not take in turns so like 15+ kids just started jumping around on the mat. When we finally taught them how to play they started exclaiming *He’s out! My turn* *He pushed me down*. Haha it was hilarious watching them. We finally played a modified game of twister. What else did we do? OoH remember when you are young and you sit in a circle and play the hand game that goes: e-maka dicio o, e-Oh, Mario Mario, Eh Eh boom boom boom, eh eh boom boom boom, 1, 2, 3 *slap* Okay that just looks funny written out. I gotta sing it to you. Yea we played that. We also played London bridge is falling down, Ring a round, Duck, Duck Goose. I love children games. Memories. Ahh. Oh that reminds me of other childrens games…Like stuck in the mud, cops and robbers, doctor doctor or girly games using elastic bands: England Ireland Scotland Wales, Inside Outside Donkey tails (does anyone know what I am talking about? But I need to find huge elastic bands) or rope games,Teddy bear, Teddy bear turn around. Lols. Once you remember one game, you think of more and more. We normally leave the orphanage around 6pm and get home around 7pm and cook dinner. Last night I slept at 9.30pm!! how early?! But we were too exhausted. Tomorrow I get to visit Hope Home the second orphanage which is smaller and further away. So Stephanie and I will overnight there! One big slumber party with 16 kids! Woo hoo
Oh some random Kodak moments. I was helping one of the kids with her homework yesterday and when she got it right I was like give me a high five. I put up my hand, she looked at me and ecstatically hit my hand 5 times with her hand. Lols. Why is it called high five anyway? The kids asked me to sing an Australian song! Me sing a song?! I dont think anyone has heard me to sing. And let alone an Australian one! But I couldn’t refuse the kids who kept pleading…so I sang Waltzing Matilda. Actually I had to hum the rest of the song because I didn’t know the lyrics. They next wanted to hear the Aussie anthem! I so didn’t know.. all I know are last few words .. “advance Australia fare” hehe. So I asked them to sing their Indian anthem. These kids loved to sing. We spent a good half an hour singing Christmas carols (over and over again). Oh yea, I took a computer class today (Dell donated some 20 computers). No worries, my water bottle was far enough away. not that I had time to drink because these kids are crazy about computers. We still havent got kids software so all they do is play on Paint, Microsoft Word, Pinball, Solitaire (all the usual computer games). It is soo hard to control 20 kids with computers. Every second there is a kid shouting Akka help me!. The way they play on the computers something is going to break...soon! they love playing with the D-drive (even though there is no CD)!
Okays, Im off now! shall write hopefully soon.