Celebration day 🎉

We have had a lovely busy day today in the hot sunshine. At 9am we travelled to the boys school where we had taught the teachers. It is a private school and one of the best in India; certainly the opposite ends of the spectrum from the CRS slum schools we have all been teaching in. Seven different activities had been set up by some of us around th sports fields – parachute, football, sack race, skipping, 3-legged race, tennis/catching skills. We then waited for buses to bring ALL our children from all the schools to meet us. There were 500 children in all and they were NOT used to a big space like this to run around in-they certainly took full advantage of that and it was hard to keep them to task in the beginning.

They moved around all the activities in turn having about 20 minutes on each; they absolutely loved it all and watching them was a delight. Another treat for them was a magician who they watched while they ate lunch and also enjoyed ice creams. Finally a ventriloquist finished their day and although we couldn’t understand, whatever was being said made all the children laugh a lot.

It was very sad to say goodbye to the Hastings children and teachers, but hopefully it won’t be the last time we see them. We are looking forward to seeing your smiling faces very soon, though!

Miss Gill and Mrs M, from Kolkata with love xx

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