Bashing bashing bashing – our pride and head ache. On Friday we gave them a lesson on time: days/months/time prepositions and intended to have some geography for the first time. For me geography is more than a game, hence satisfaction soon to be guaranteed.
Children were phenomenally good at the “time” topic, at least verbally. They would spit out tongue twisting months without any endeavor. Yet, when it came to writing, even the elder ones like Kamlesh,14, or Monika,15. By the time we came across the easy “June and July”, three kings stepped on orphanage threshold. They were men from a huge company which constructs mountain tunnels. They are extremely rich people, and were carrying sweets, cookies with butter, potato chips. They gave this food to each of them, and for the first time I saw two things: firstly, our children so calm and submissive, secondly, charity as it happened.
I raised many doubts in my head, why would they bring sweets and potato chips to the kids, and ask them to eat it instantaneously. Truly, kids do not have sweets on regular basis their diet consists of dal (beans), chapattis (bread), pulav (rice), sabji (vegetable curry).
Guests were interested in Anine a lot, for two reasons. She was a woman to begin with, and blonde as well. No explanations needed, kids were disturbed by the amount of food. I call it “being high n sugar”, so they became extrememly energetic and agile. We had to play some old school violent games like red rover or cat&mouse. Games are rough (you know boys), tears are common.
Afterwards, we showed them a world political map. Surprise, they couldn’t tell us where India was. They couldn’t tell us Russia, nor the US, nor China. It was their first but definitely not the last one encounter with maps. Now it’s clear, that in their public there is little initiative to teach global awareness. Conversely, ne could argue that the whole country is generally bad at geography. Even when meeting some elder men of pristine reputation I feel awry once statements like “I believe German similar to French” or “knowing that Britain has a land border with Europe, how do they unknot the right-left traffic difference once driving from Spain to Bitain?”. ;D I could collect more quotes of similar relevance, but time is sparse. In the end, we still have a lot of things to teach them about European continent, whereas India is too much a “continent of its own” at the moment.
Das (tunnel company man) invited us for a dinner on Sunday.
Next time we’ll bring two maps t Bashing, and our evening was spent planning for “Save girl child India” skit.
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