Well it has been a busy few weeks...here's some news...
- we've gotten used to the heat and thankfully, the monsoon has come and cleared the air of some heat-although it was 33 degrees at 11pm the other night and I had goosebumps-seriously acclimatised!!
- many of the Froebel volunteers have had spells of illness, nothing too serious but thankfully I have nothing to report, fingers crossed it stays that way!
- we are well under way with the teaching and it is going very well indeed, we have all ages-from creche age to 15+ so we have so many resources to prepare every night before lessons.
- the toys that the Froebel Hope Partnership donated arrived in our centre and we had a great play session with the kids - Leah and I supplemented these by buying local educational games to work on in class and leave behind us.
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- We went to the Sunderbans, a tiger reserve and mangrove forest at the delta of the Ganges which was a great break from the city for a night, some fresh air and relaxation (picture below) before heading back to the madness of Kolkata!
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It's hard of course when you know the children are coming from such difficult homesand struggle daily to eat and get by but they are truly the happiest kids I have ever met :) Just look at the photo :) They have very little and need very little which is so refreshing and I am taking so many pictures to remember them - no doubt ill be back before too long to visit-look im already planning the next visit!!
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Well that's all for now, having a great time - how could you not being surrounded by such smiles every day!
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- we've gotten used to the heat and thankfully, the monsoon has come and cleared the air of some heat-although it was 33 degrees at 11pm the other night and I had goosebumps-seriously acclimatised!!
- many of the Froebel volunteers have had spells of illness, nothing too serious but thankfully I have nothing to report, fingers crossed it stays that way!
- we are well under way with the teaching and it is going very well indeed, we have all ages-from creche age to 15+ so we have so many resources to prepare every night before lessons.
- the toys that the Froebel Hope Partnership donated arrived in our centre and we had a great play session with the kids - Leah and I supplemented these by buying local educational games to work on in class and leave behind us.
- We have not only been teaching the lovely local children but local teachers also - we showed them activities and games we use in teaching and made out a sheet describing how to arrange and prepare resources for these, we have also taught them some fun songs too for teaching (pictures below) I am really pleased that they are so welcome to new ideas as our work here will have much more sustainable effect if these methods of teaching are maintained. We have built a great relationship with both the teachers and the children, already we know it will be very hard to leave so we are making the most of all our days left here :)
It's hard of course when you know the children are coming from such difficult homesand struggle daily to eat and get by but they are truly the happiest kids I have ever met :) Just look at the photo :) They have very little and need very little which is so refreshing and I am taking so many pictures to remember them - no doubt ill be back before too long to visit-look im already planning the next visit!!
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