more sKoOOol stuff

Bahraich bike park = middle of the road!

on the way to Bahraich

Indre - Nepali Admin assistant at school

A guitar lesson is much more important for Aishwarya than teaching! (PS yes it's the same red guitar from my folk days in the 70's!!)

It is obligatory to have your face stuffed with birthday cake.

Tripta (Head of Primary part of School) gets her first logon with the donated laptop from Fanshawe School Dronfield UK.

First white person to walk to Tripta's village! Yeay!

Tripta cycled 5 km from her home here to school - often pushing her bike up to the waist in flood water - for many years.

Lil' shepherd - no school for him.

say "Hi"!

"Gooerden Voorde!"

Crazy + wonderful Danish, Slovak & Norwegian students!

Danish Bollywood - a scene from 'Dabbang' - hilarious and very well received!

Peter is good as Salman Khan

... Queing to say 'goodbye' ... the WHOLE SCHOOL come on stage with cards!

OK a NEW TREND is starting - this is EXTREME HAIRCUTTING. may only be done on top of a high building at sunset. Nitin's wife is very trusting. Nya nya nya.

This guy is NEVER on time for school. I got chased by one of these outside the computer room the other day. I leapt over a book case that's far too high to leap over, & threw it down in his way just like the tv chases. He was 1/4 my size but much more determined to win.

some of the wonderful KG2 (there are 48 children altogether in this class!!)

Rekha (Centre) is new from the villages - she has graduated from our Literacy centre with good marks and achieved a free place at school. She has a kidney stone (serious) and spinal curvature.

A scene at Sahjana village

doctors surgery (!!) in the village visit.

A level Chemistry practical exam ... 25 different chemicals to get ready ... smelly. LOADS of  "interesting" perspectives about Lab Health & Safety here - eg "Drink your chai out of a glass lab beaker - why not! + Safety specs - uh?"

Just marked the end of year exam for the new Mahima Niwas girls in KG2 - 2 of them will progress to Class 1 (= UK year 1) whereas the other 3 are going to need another year learning "count and name - 4 cats, 3 cars" etc. Well, they have only done 2 months schooling since they arrived in Oct /Nov and speak NO ENGLISH. They were put into school classes last month - it's not bad really. 
The rest of the 25 new girls are spread throughout nursery & KG1.

Gill's organisation skills have been uncovered - now there is no place to hide. She is chief exams officer (well, the person who collects, collates & organises the exam papers before the exams start. She does a good job.)

Regarding IT, computers & the internet, we are at the mercy of a long string of factors like whether or not we have electricity, whether the exchange sends internet signal to us, the generator being turned off (more is spent on diesel than staff wages! 8 litres per hour at full demand) etc. etc. - sometimes I wonder how it's possible we are able to SKYPE (or facebook) our friends & family - it's SO GOOD and therapeutic to talk to you! :-)

THANKS for following & watching!

Love. bugs bunny & big ears! (Sometimes mildly mad!)