We're in the middle of a 4 day monsoon over here. We've been told that it has come late as a result of climate change, but apperently people round here will blame a non-laying chicken on climate change.
We started teaching yesterday! That was very exciting. After 6 hours of manual labour I wasn't sure that I would be up to it, but the kids were amazing. Me, Tara and Dilwar have grade 9 (14-15 year olds, plus the occasional 17 year old who has been kept back). No teacher training here, we just got put into the class and were told to teach them English! We did quite well we managed to think of a couple of games to keep them occupied. Their level of English though is amazing so we are going to have to start planning lessons properly. They've done the tenses and preposition and article and all sorts. I haven't even done thoose!This iss going to be a serious learning curve for me, but Bal gave us an English text book so hopefully we'll be able to convince them we know some English.
It was a speacil holy day today so everyone gets the day off work. We had a smashing curry for breakfast then a guru came round to our house and tied thread around our wrists and put a rice tikka (third eye) on our forheads. Me and Melissa (room mate) bought some mendhi last night and didi Prabhu went to town on my left hand, I look like a fell into a tank of heena.
In other news I taught Khushi (lizzie) to juggle, she's two balls down and she made me write this. We've had two people in the group leeched already. I haven't had one yet but I have that to look forward to.
I'll try and put some pics up soon, I'm dying to get some up.
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