Competition
5 July 2011
I’m writing in the morning of the 6th. Time passed by quickly yesterday that I didn’t have time to blog. AHHH. I got frustrated yesterday. I kept saying I’m going to take a bath yesterday at 9am. I come and the warden is bathing. I wait and wait and wait for 40 minutes approximately. I was close to crying then I didn’t why I was about to cry. It is a bath for goodness sakes. I can take one or not. I washed my hair and spent more that five minutes and while I was changing, the bell was ringing for breakfast. PHEW, I made it to breakfast! During breakfast, the interns were telling me about Mount Abu and to be honest, I don’t care where we go on the weekends. They seem to care and go sightseeing which I should care too but I honestly love these girls and yes sometimes I just need my space but I’m receiving my space now. I do miss my independence that my parents gave me. Despite living in NYC, I understand why they call and ask where I am and who I am with. I feel like I am a teenager or younger because we need to do be accompanied everywhere. I understand their concern but at the same time if we are supposed to get to know the city and not be afraid, we should be able to things at our own pace. Culture difference. My parents were surprised when my mom’s best friend’s nephew came to stay with us for literally two days and he just came to our apartment on his own and explored the city by himself. It’s something in our nature: the youth like to do things on their own and rebel, in a way. We need to find an AIESECer to come with us. We wanted to bond with Vittoria because we can see that she’s still a bit uncomfortable possibly.
Yesterday, I went into my classroom and as normal and while I was putting the hearing aids, the teacher Vayshali [spelling](yes I knew her name but totally forgot it until other teachers kept calling her yesterday) said no take them out because they are competing remember? I forgot that SR KG was going to compete because I thought it was going to be solely JR KG but it was two activities for both. They practiced for a while and then started at 1 or 1:15 we started the competition. JR KG was up first with relay. Prepping for the competition was fun because we used white powder to make up the lanes but later we found out that it was baby powder, to cool one off to prevent from sweating. Suzana and I were so hot that we need to take a break when lemon spoon was going on SR KG. It was so tiring and by the time we got to snack, I took a 15 minute nap only to be woken up and told that the bell had rung. Luckily, I didn’t have to do anything since I had helped with the first half of the competition. I just watched and saw the teamwork that the kids had for three legged race. I was chilling when a girl came and sat by me. She had so much energy! I was told that she was new to the playgroup and she wasn’t this energetic on the first day. She was trying to escape and the teachers had to put two chairs in front of the door. She wasn’t crying when I saw her. She kept telling me orders and had to listen because she was a strong little one. I escaped to get the prizes.
We were done at 4:30 and the teachers said don’t worry you can leave. It’s been a very long day and hot as well. We left and I decided to read for a bit. While I was reading, some kids were trying to get my attention from SR KG that live in the hostels. They don’t live with us because they are too little. After that I was asked if they could listen to my music and I said sure. I put the volume on maybe 80 to 100% and they heard my music. They were loving it. I left them alone for a while and started to do something which I wanted to do since conference and that was to whip someone with the mini towel that Jil had given me. I started to do it to a couple of girls and then started to chase girls around. They were scared because they assumed that I was going to do it hard but when I finally go to them it was a nice little tap. It seems that everything I do involves a big crowd of people and a playing game. I am also known to be the prankster. Since we have a balcony, and now I have a reusable water bottle with a lid, I’ve been pouring water on girls. It’s refreshing at least I think but I’m doing it sporadically and not every day. I’ve even influenced a girl to do it and that’s bad. She did it once but I don’t want her to get into trouble in the future so I might stop.
After prayer, Suzana and I exercised from a workout video she has from the biggest loser. We stopped like maybe halfway through and started doing our own thing. I showered twice yesterday. After the shower, the girls literally sat me down and started to show me a book with pictures. I saw the word and started to interpret things on my own. It seems logical and I got some things. These girls are so fascinating.
Yes, I am safe and I am having fun. I finally have girls to be around. I’ve lived with boys my entire life and not saying that I didn’t enjoy my childhood but I have younger sister to show pranks and just smother. I smother my younger cousins but not I do with these girls. I love my friends but we have mature conversations and not its not taking care of them. These girls are different. I will live with them until August and sometimes on weekends. They can be overbearing sometimes but it’s understandable. They see the things that we have and who we are and when will they get the chance to be with foreigners again? If we do a good job then hopefully next year but we are making an impact on their lives as well.
Suzana gave me Adele music and I can now have it on my iPod!! This music made me think more and write more as you can see. Until later…