Monday, March 22, 2010

Back to Work

Today we went back to work after our weekend off. Our morning yoga session made a good start to the day. After a breakfast of rice noodles, curry sauce and eggs I headed off by myself to SEAM to spend a morning at the construction site. Aneesh had had enough of construction and went off to observe at the hospital. However, tsince the children at SEAM are so looking forward to new dormitories and the construction can only continue if a volunteer shows up, I decided to put in another morning of sifting dirt. Most of the other volunteers agreed to take a share doing the construction, so hopefully I won't be the only one keeping the project going. I felt proud that I was able to sift 5 loadsd of dirt in 3 hours and in blistering heat and humidity.

Lunch was a welcome break and I was able to take a wonderfully cool shower after eating. This afternoon I spent preparing for my tutoring session tonight at SEAM and my classes tomorrow morning at Grace School. At Grace, I will be teaching 3 classes, kindergarten, first grade and second grade. The main object is to teach the kids English, although we teach all subjects. This really, really should be interesting. I got the papers copied that I needed at a small copy shop. At the shop, you give the paper you want copied to the sari-clad woman who owns the shop and she copies it for you on an ancient copy machine. When all your copies are made, you walk next door to a small shop selling drinks and ice cream and pay her husband. He is a lot happier if you also buy a "cold drink."

Back to preparing lessons...

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