Qutub Minar and Lotus Temple

Today was the second full day of work and it was better than the last, it went a lot faster too. I think it's because we had a translator with us (one staff member is being trained) so she could explain any directions to games we wanted to play with the kids. I'm scared for tomorrow because we won't be there lol.

The only thing the children respond to are threats and punishment (hitting) so it's really hard to get my point across to them without being angry. I haven't done it yet so clearly I am getting no point across haha. The teacher legit punches them in the head. I'm not there to change the way they teach their kids, I'm just there to help so it's not my place to change their "culture" of doing things.

After work we had lunch and then I went with the staff member in training to see the sites of New Delhi. This is her first time in Delhi too, she is from Dharamsala, India (Northern in the mountains). She doesn't like it here because it's a big busy city haha.

We went to Qutub Minar (shown above) which is a bunch of old mosques and the Lotus Temple (shown at the end) which is a nondemoninational temple that any person can pray or meditate silently in it. It was a let down, as you can see it's BEAUTIFUL on the outside and then the inside was insanely plain! If you ever go see it, don't wait on the line to go in, totally not worth it. You'll still go in and then say to yourself, I should have listened to Michelle. haha There was a lot of traffic coming back because of the Muslim holiday Muharram. I saw some parade floats and TONS of people celebrating.

Then we came back for dinner and headed out again to see a traditional dance called Sattriya. It was very interesting at first but I was very tired and started to doze off.

This is a picture of the woman doing the dance, it was pretty amazing how much control she had over EVERY PART of her body:

All-in-all it was a very busy day and I'm nervous for tomorrow at the day care hahhaa. Other than that, I love India and I can't wait for this weekend when I go to see the Taj!!!