Birthday Cakee
June 23, 2011
Yesterday I didn’t blog. Well, you wouldn’t know this because I’m writing posting once a week. Yesterday same thing, breakfast and all the usual, except when I went into class, I didn’t sleep. Yes, I was tired but I only closed my eyes for a couple of seconds. The class noticed but since I sit in the back, you can’t really tell what I’m doing. There’s a new old kid. This means that he’s new to me but the class knows him. My teacher recommended that I teach the flashcards again but later she then told me about the drawing competition that she will suggest to the Secretary. She told us that we should implement it and that it should be done to each standard (grade level). Today it was be senior KG. We organized what they should colour because the class can’t draw as of now, but the girls here can. They showed us a preview of what they are able to do. We decided on the Indian flag. Emily made the certificates for first prize, second and third. We will give them a certificate instead of prizes with the school’s seal on it. Namita from the LC (local committee of Ahmedabad) came yesterday. She spoke to us about conference and that she needed to know today (well yesterday) if we were going. We had firmly decided not to go but Suzana kept saying she wanted to go. She didn’t directly say it but I knew that if we didn’t go, she would feel bad but so far, we’ve done EVERYTHING together. We are a family since we don’t know anyone else but each other. It will be interesting to see the dynamics of us and of the girls when the new intern comes.
We did decide to go to conference because we came here to travel and work but also to meet new people. I haven’t been to a conference and supposedly this is a known one. For those AIESECers in Baruch who are reading this, it’s the JNC of India. Suzana, who’s an AIESECer in Canada has heard of it, but I don’t know if it is famous or not. It took us an hour to make this decision because it is 6,000 for delegation fees and traveling expenses. Good side of it is that we will be able to experience the train!! OH yesterday at the LCP house, there was an elevator. It was like the elevator in Titanic or in Inception. It was cool to see that we could see the floors when we were going up or down.
Yesterday was a girl’s birthday and we surprised her with cake. In the trainee flat, it’s a tradition to cake them in the face, so I did it, naturally and this is what she looked like afterwards:
We also saw monkeys!! The girls showed us the monkeys by doing the money sign, which looks like a bamboon after we finished school.
I really like it here but I’m starting to miss my friends a lot. I miss my family too as well but I e-mail them everyday, so it’s like hearing from them. This week we’re going to Jaipur to conference. I shall bring this laptop and hopefully we’ll get some internet, if not, I will talk to all on June 30th, when we come back!!