25th October
Giant webs with spiders as big as my netbook gave me a bit of a shock this morning and all sorts of ants appeared from nowhere when I ate my packed lunch. I started walking to school at 9am and was pleased to not have got lost I spent an hour or so in Year 1 who were learning words starting with k. Their teacher Tara has a reasonable grasp of English with a very strong accent, consequently all the children are learning that we cook in a ‘keeshin,’ but spelt properly. I sat under a tree at break and showed them some photos on the computer and one of the children pointed out the stream of large yellow ants crawling all over my shoulder.
Two 9 year olds came to take me to the secondary school. I was handed a pen by a Nepali who didn’t speak English, led into a classroom and he then disappeared leaving me with three classes.
After a few games I decided to talk about rectangles squares and triangles, corners, etc. An hour later I began to wonder how long to continue. The children told me they finished at 1pm and it was 1.15. There were no staff to be seen and certainly no lesson plans so eventually I let the children go home. The staf have been told not to leave volunteers to teach but to learn teaching methods from them.
I got lost coming home as I used the wrong tethered buffalo as a marker and all the rice fields look the same. I wear a local Nepali straw hat to school and use a bamboo stick to help me up the hill. I would like to get some local clothes to wear as they are cheap, comfortable practical and beautiful.
It is still very hot in the daytime – particularly the walk back up the hill from school but children walk with me some of the way talking constantly even though they know I haven’t a clue what they are saying. When the sun goes down at about 6pm it suddenly gets quite cold.
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| Celebrating Diwali |
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| beautiful dancing |
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| These two walked with me to school this morning |
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| Sophiya from Year 1 |
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