Mural Massacred By: Liberty Adams

Mural Massacred

I came down with a sore throat and a headache, dang it! The food here is amazing. We get rice for both lunch and dinner, so it gets kind of boring, but it still tastes very delicious! It started to rain after lunch, so the three groups that were outside without a roof had to move indoors to avoid the rain. My group included. Today was the last lesson provided by YMAD, so that was sad to think about. The kids had a hard time listening to what I had to say and teach. So, a lot of the time was filled with tons of coloring.

 

Our mural looked amazing until Gopal, who is one of the nine preschoolers had paint on his fingers. He did what most little kids would do, touch whatever they can with dirty hands. So, Gopal took is blue painted fingers and spread it over out mural that we did yesterday. Alongside that, Jens went to write 2019 underneath YMAD but wrote 200 when he noticed he messed up. So, Hayden had to paint white paint over Jens mistake to make the mural amazing.

 

The kids at my school are super attached to me and my team. We only have 1.5 days left at Bandal. Have about one week till we leave to come back home. The culture is unique and completely different from the culture back home. The houses have different colors of roofs, so it’s cool to see the different colored houses on the drive to and from the schools.

 

India has the cream cheese and onion lays chips, but they are call them Calm Cheese and Onion. These chips are 10 times better than the American version of the lays chips. The India chips aren’t as greasy which is amazing! Our translators will be doing henna for everyone who wants it. The kids of Bandal have henna on the palms of their hands instead of having it on the back of their hand.

 

Tomorrow is the culture exchange, which I am super excited about! Only because we get to show our dance September, by Earth, Wind and Fire, sing One Day, Jump Right In, along with Let it grow from the Lorax. I still think it’s crazy to think that I’m in India at this very moment, immersed in their culture, surrounded by my new life lenses.

 

Team Leader went well on Wednesday. It was weird because time didn’t fly by as fast as it does when you are actually teaching the kids. But I found it super helpful to see how my other teammates teach. Saw new ways to teach, so I was super excided to try out those new ways of teaching to make my lessons even better than they already were.