Bollywood
13 July 2011
Again I had a dream with the baby. Rick was holding it and Rebecca had bought clothes and supposedly born prematurely. I hope everything is okay with the baby. I don’t know why I keep dreaming about the baby.
Today, Prakash said we could see a Bollywood movie and he’ll tell me about the HP tickets. Hopefully, we can get the premiere tickets.
I blogged about the above yesterday. Now to tell you what happened yesterday. At 11:30, our usual meeting with the principal went fine. We told him that we wanted standard 3 to practice and told us that we should see a teacher about the games and we did. We wanted to make sure that the games we had for them were safe. We spent about ten minutes discussing the games and we would start practice at 1:00 pm. We went to our respective classrooms and I read my book. There was nothing to do since the students were already assigned class work and were copying. I spoke to my teacher and she said, “When you are done with standard 3, you can play games with them.” Perfect. The bell rung for break at 1:00pm and while my students were starting to eat, I left to meet up with the other interns. Standard 3 is a bit more complicated and as the children get older, they are a bit more adventurous to go against the teacher. We had to keep to repeat things and it wouldn’t stick in their minds. It was a bit frustrating when everyone in the class would congratulate the winner after every game. It was just the practice round so today wouldn’t matter. It would matter tomorrow.
We played three games: musical chairs, obstacle course, and barrier. Obstacle course was a bit different because they had to start out by running in the playground and then had to go around the chairs. Barrier was a game where we had the bell and when the bell stopped then the children needed to get on the border of the playground, which was above ground and stay there. They could not move or run. If they did then any of the four catchers could possibly get them out.
We had to continue the games until after snack and then finally I went to my classroom around 3:45. After the break, I got to play some of the games that we had played with standard two. After school, we went and booked tickets to go to Udaipur. Emily said it’s a good thing to travel now instead of later for her because we have one weekend left with her. We leave Friday night at 9:30 to arrive at Udaipur at 7:00am. We leave Udaipur at 10pm to arrive in Ahmedabad at 4:00am. It’s better this way because the heritage walk of Ahmedabad will start at 7:00 am. We will have to sleep on the bus and thankfully we booked sleepers. We also started to plan our trip to Agra. We spoke with Prakash, the night before, about the trip and he gave us some suggestions: take a train to Delhi or New Delhi, spend a day there, then take an overnight bus to Agra, see the Taj Mahal and see Agra, then take another overnight bus to Jaipur, and spend a day there. I was thinking that instead of returning home, Suzana and I go immediately to the intern conference which will be two hours away from Mumbai. We spend the 26th to the 28th there, go to Mumbai on the 29th, come back on the 30th and say goodbye to Emily. This was before we heard that there was a blast in Mumbai. Now we are not so sure of our plans.
We didn’t go out yesterday because something came up for Prakash so we’ll see the Delhi Belly today and Harry Potter tomorrow! After dinner, I played a little bit and practiced with the hostel girls, who are in standard 3, so that they can be prepared for tomorrow. Afterwards, the younger girls wanted to play so they asked me to play the other games, which we started to play inside in the hostel. The older girls even liked the games!
Update on sarcastic girl: she made up with her friend so it’s all good now. Some of the girls are fasting for five days, from the Hindu religion, so that they can marry good husbands when they are older. I spoke to my teacher about this yesterday and she said there are no longer arranged marriages anymore. It’s very rare to find it but the parents must agree to the person that they want to marry. Suzana and I are going to run. See ya later.