Mitali left a little while ago for Kolkata. She left early because Bhola, who is driving her to Godda to catch the bus, needs to run a few errands too. He also has to take her to see an ayurvedic doctor. She hasn't been well. Had a bad cold yesterday and was running a temperature. She's well enough to travel back to Kolkata, but we are all concerned.
It's bitterly cold here today. The newspapers say that it's below 8 degrees, but it feels like sub zero because of the chill winds that are blowing. Even though the sun rose late, it's impossible to sit out in the sun because of the wind. It's bone-chilling.
I'm glad I spent all morning indoors dealing with admissions. There was such a huge rush that Bhola and Shanku had to do a bit of crowd controlling! We had to turn away quite a few parents and their wards. We now have 30 children in Nursery, 20 in Class 1, 14 each in classes 2 and 3 and 11 in Class 4. Most of the new entrants are from Kaldo, a village beyond Burhikura.
While admissions were going on, the volunteers conducted classes as usual. Once the admissions were over, I taught in Class 4. Raiman did no show up today. But it did not matter because the Nursery kids did not have school today as their classroom was being used for admission interviews. We'll have to impress upon Raiman that he should take his jon as a Nursery school teacher a bit more seriously.
At the moment Dani and Tak are getting ready to do their yoga practise. Ever since their stay at Shivananda Ashram in Kerala, they have been doing yoga rather seriously. I wish I had continued with my yoga so that I could join them. A little while ago they were helping Amie make apple sauce. I've never had any before and so am looking forward to tasting some.
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