Wednesday, January 14, 2009

Art and Lohri Festival

Working with the children is much easier. They are more receptive towards learning from us and we're getting the hang of teaching them. I'm sure the two go hand in hand.

On Monday, after work we ate lunch and decided to go to an art exhibit. It was really amazing, the funny thing is the artist is from Brooklyn named Rina Banerjee. Her art was selling for 1,000,000Rs ($20,000). I mean, it was really good but that's...... a lot of money. We hung out around the town the gallery was in and were stared at as usual lol.


Tuesday was just another day of work and I played with the younger children because they get to go outside and it's absolutely freezing inside. They seriously love me, they all yell "DEEDEE" and get my attention just to smile at me or show me something, so cute. These kids are so much easier to handle because they don't beat each other up as much and all you really have to do is make sure they don't get hurt. Definitely more my speed.

So when I went inside one of the girls who works there was playing with a baby and she I guess wanted me to play with the baby too. So she just hands this baby over to me, it definitely had some kind of birth defect but honestly, cutest kid EVER. I was playing with her and smiling at her because she smiled back. Then I pick her up to give her back to the girl that works there and...... she totally peed on me...

Yes. I went to India and I got peed on.

That being said, I went home and took a much needed nap. Then woke up just in time to for the celebration of Lohri. This is a celebration of the new crops that farmers will soon be harvesting. We made a bonfire type thing and threw popcorn, peanuts, and sugarcane into the fire. Then we danced around it haha very fun.

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