Today’s placement went fairly well, although that was surprising. I had planned on giving my class over to the volunteers teaching art so that they could reasonably create the mural that was planned for one of the culminating events of the Summer Program. However, I discovered this morning, just before we got in the van to go to the school, which ( Read more... )

No, really, there’s a connection.

And, I might add, this is pure opinion based upon observations and conversations. I haven’t had time to do research (although I’m very interested in pursuing it, given my travels and my interest).

I’ve been teaching at Gyandeep Public School in the Himachal Pradesh District in Northern India. Before I describe what I ( Read more... )

20100717

So…today it was raining when I woke up. Nothing too hard, so no the torrential downpour I would have imagined when I heard “Monsoon Season” in the United States, but rain nonetheless! Given the chaos of yesterday, quite a few of us were hoping that the rain might mean that many of our students would stay home today, not only because of the ( Read more... )

Today, I flew solo teaching my class as my two assistants were off in Delhi…wow was today a challenge!

It started well enough, but then the students began trickling in at no particular time and any lesson I had planned started going straight to hell. By the end of the day, when one of the groups in my class wanted to spend the entire time practicing ( Read more... )

Today was the first day of teaching in earnest and it went really well. I think that, despite my planning and anxiety over the situation, I was thinking on my feet for how to make it through the day more than I’d hoped, but it went well and the students seemed to enjoy the activities and learn ( Read more... )

20100713

Good morning, India!

I woke up this morning, earlier than I expected, so I treated myself by sitting on the porch and watching the sunrise over the Himalayas. I’m sitting there, now, in fact. It’s actually a little unbelievable to even consider that is what I’m doing! It’s very peaceful, here, and you might imagine.

I’m very glad I chose the ( Read more... )

i'm mostly just posting this so the few people who read only this know that I'm still alive ( Read more... )

So far so good ( Read more... )

20100709 4:30am LAX

So, first of all thank you to Joe for getting me to LAX at a little after three in the morning. It’s now just after 4:30, and the only reason I got through things so quickly was because I packed light and I was third in my line. The staff, here, at LAX seems…well, lax. I understand that it’s well before dawn, but the lack of ( Read more... )