Today the primary staff and Headmaster from Amar Jyoti visited the Fulbari Montessori school in Pokhara. We were shown around by the owner of the school and then sat down to discuss views.

  There is a vast difference between government and private education here and at first the staff were overawed by the facilities at the Montessori school.  

At the end of the morning however they all appeared to be more at ease and started a lively discussion about how natural resources such as pebbles, nuts and leaves could be used for teaching number work and as inspiration for art activities, etc.

  It was a delight to see the children in the secondary school picking up rubbish in their playground this morning before we left. 

 The children have been used to dropping any rubbish they have directly on the ground and the use of bins has not been encouraged in the past. The next project is to get the rubbish tip moved from next to the kindergarten class in the primary school. Most mornings there are rat droppings on the volunteers' work in the staff room.  

  I pass this little one each morning on the way to school. She always shouts out 'Namaste' and 'How are you?'.
 I don't know why she doesn't come to school herself as she is certainly of school age.