A Misty Morning

It's been a very misty morning. I couldn't see the volunteer's building which lies across the yard from my room. Then I saw a few huddled shapes. The girls were up early. All amazed at how misty it was and when the sun came up looking like a moon, they all got busy taking pictures. The one you see here was taken in December but today's mist was dense and one could not see the trees that you can see here. Fortunately, the weather changed just before school assembly.

Today 4 kids were hauled up for misdemeanour. I do that at times when things get out of hand. I was told that they are now behaving themselves. That's good. Discipline is paramount at our school. If there's no discipline, the kids don't get to learn anything. And they prevent others from learning too.

Karoline and Renee went to Godda for the police registration. That went off smoothly but they they had trouble shopping. Or rather the shop-keepers had difficulty understanding what they needed. The taxi driver called up twice -- once to ask me what they meant by "chocolates" and once more to ask me what lemon meant. They did get all that they were looking for. But on the way back, the taxi broke down. And so did not get back to the project till 3:00 in the afternoon. They were utterly famished and went straight to the kitchen to eat. Meanwhile, Dani and Tak were biting their nails in suspense -- wondering if the girls had brought the chocolates they had asked for! When they did get their chocolates they stuffed themselves!!!!

Dani and Tak managed their respective classes on their own. They were probably very tired at the end of it. That probably explains why they did not paint anything today. Or maybe they were too full of chocolates? Balai managed to do a lot of work today. We put some of the freshly painted desks in class one. The kids are thrilled. We've already run out of blue paint. We'll have to order more. But the yellow is not coming out very well. Wonder if it is the paint. It's a bit too thin and transparent. Even a double coat doesn't seem to help much.

The masons are busy repairing Bansi and Suman's building. Even though the rooms don't have any windows they continue to sleep there because the roof hasn't come off yet. They'll probably sleep in the kitchen when that happens.

The little pups are getting to be quite a handfull. They run around all over the place and tend to get underfoot. And even through they can hardly walk properly they are very aggressive towards each other. Bruni doesn't seem to care except when someone picks them up. They she get's a little tense.

The late afternoon and evening were rather uneventful. And so ends another day at Roldih.