It was a warmer day today. The sun was out early and the temperature in the morning was 12 degrees and went up to 18 degrees by noon. I had a nice little nap in the sun in the afternoon. But the wind has picked up again and who knows, it may be a cold night once again.
Yesterday more kids came for admission, so we finally took in 44 more kids -- all in nursery. Today we split them up in two groups of 22. The "older" kids will come to school from 8:30 till 10:00 and the younger bunch will come in at 10:00 and stay till 12:00. When it gets hot, we'll reverse the order so that the smaller kids come to school when it's cool and the older ones come in later. I hope it all works out well.
Radha and Kartik are doing a fairly good job of teaching classes 1 and 2. The volunteers are teaching English in all the classes except Nursery. I am taking a couple of classes in class 4 and I am also teaching the "teachers" (Radha, Raiman and Kartik) for 30 minutes after school is over.
The Santhals are celebrating "Sohrai" in the surrounding villages. But it seems rather low-key this year. Perhaps it's too cold and people are spending most of their time indoors drinking. One doesn't get to hear too many drums. Which mean the women aren't coming out at night to dance. Roldih will apparently celebrate the festival on Monday. And here I was under the impression that the festival is usually over by Makar Shankranti, which is today. Some children brought us "prasad" and that's how I know.
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It is good to hear that the young teachers also are being taught, it will help them immensely.
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