Just a quick update on our week as we are leaving for Varanasi tomorrow night and won't be able to update again until next week.
As for IICP we are in love with the kids from our class! My little guy, Sudhangshu is such a little cutie! His favourite thing to do is grab your hand and take it to his mouth to give you a kiss, he even says Muah! Kim and I have also taught several of the kids to blow kisses so we are blowing kisses back and forth whenever we enter or leave the classroom. This week we got to do mat evaluations on Sudhangshu and Bitasta (Kim's student) as well as a writing evaluation on Sudhangshu and another student in the slass who stays at Mother Theresa's charity - he was pretty happy because everytime he sees Kim and I he makes the signal that he wants to right for us. Today we also went up to the vocational training room where they do print and stationary work. We got to make a gift bag out of newspaper which was pretty exciting-but we clearly were not up too par at the task because the guy that was teaching us smiled hugely after each of our atemps at the various steps and then took the bag from us and fixed it for us...so we need some more training for sure ;)
Yesterday after work we went down to New market to do a little shopping...but this was so exhausting that we didn't get much :-/ Bartering is so much work!!! and you literally can not just browse because as soon as you show the slightest interest in something it is off the rack and thrown into the bag for you which is followed by fast-paced bargening that you cannot say "I'll think about it" to because they just won't let you get away with it...this has been a great challenge for me because I am the most indecisive shopper ever! But we did get away with a couple scarves and Kurtis so we made some progress :)
Anyways, gotta run-we are off to yoga. We will update next week after our trip to Varanasi - not looking forward to the overnight trains, but it'll be an experience!
Rachel
As for IICP we are in love with the kids from our class! My little guy, Sudhangshu is such a little cutie! His favourite thing to do is grab your hand and take it to his mouth to give you a kiss, he even says Muah! Kim and I have also taught several of the kids to blow kisses so we are blowing kisses back and forth whenever we enter or leave the classroom. This week we got to do mat evaluations on Sudhangshu and Bitasta (Kim's student) as well as a writing evaluation on Sudhangshu and another student in the slass who stays at Mother Theresa's charity - he was pretty happy because everytime he sees Kim and I he makes the signal that he wants to right for us. Today we also went up to the vocational training room where they do print and stationary work. We got to make a gift bag out of newspaper which was pretty exciting-but we clearly were not up too par at the task because the guy that was teaching us smiled hugely after each of our atemps at the various steps and then took the bag from us and fixed it for us...so we need some more training for sure ;)
Yesterday after work we went down to New market to do a little shopping...but this was so exhausting that we didn't get much :-/ Bartering is so much work!!! and you literally can not just browse because as soon as you show the slightest interest in something it is off the rack and thrown into the bag for you which is followed by fast-paced bargening that you cannot say "I'll think about it" to because they just won't let you get away with it...this has been a great challenge for me because I am the most indecisive shopper ever! But we did get away with a couple scarves and Kurtis so we made some progress :)
Anyways, gotta run-we are off to yoga. We will update next week after our trip to Varanasi - not looking forward to the overnight trains, but it'll be an experience!
Rachel
wow, you guys are hittin the yoga like everyday day now. how's your eyesight rach? yeah it's tough to try and make things with locals. their survival skills are so much better than ours. i remember in thailand i would be trying for ages to get my hammock tied up on my bungalow porch. when a local dude saw me struggling he came over and tied it up in like 5 seconds. big screen tvs, iphones, cars are great and all but sometimes ya gotta get back to the basics. thanks for sharing all of these posts guys, theyre fun to read.
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