Monday, April 03, 2006

I never knew... Sun can be Blue!!

This weekend only three of us were there. Sapna was ready with some A4 sheets, Prashant brought some candies and I was entering there with "no ideas what to do" in my mind. But once you are in, you really don’t need any idea. Refreshing smiles, curious faces, "namaste bhaiya" sound in the air...and you are totally into a new world.

Our "A for apple" team was busy doing some hard-code math this time:-). Moment I think of teaching something, very next moment they make me realize that they already know much more and I can really learn a lot from them. I sat in the middle and they were jumping over me.."bhaiya meri book dekho..bhaiya meri book dekho". I took one of the notebook in hand.. "2+3=5" was first entry on it. I remembered the day when, to add 2 and 3, I used to draw two bars...and a circle and three bars and count them all together. From counting..to sums..I thought to teach them some tables. I asked.."2 ka pahada kisko kisko aata hai" and there was Lalit (he is really good at many things) behind "bhaiya mujhe 20 tak aate hai".. I said "kyaaaa????" and thought.."graduation ho gaya par aaj tak mujhe 20 tak pahade yaad nahi hue"... It was so much fun teaching them some math tricks. They loved the one..using which you can generate (without remembering) the table of 9 just by writing 0 to 9 forward and backward.

At the other end, where Prshant was busy with camera session with kids, Sapna was enjoying drawing classes with them. I sat with one group and asked one of them make my sketch. If you dont care about the ratio of my head to my tummy...I was looking
cool:) with 5-5 fingers in both my hands. I would really recommend all the advertisement agencies to meet such creative minds. Looking at many concentric circles on a paper.. I asked "ye kya hai".. and he replied in a soft voice "ghar". Who knows he might be the first in future to make circular pyramids with top views as concentric circles? There were multicolored Indian flags, orange stars, triangular kites, one wheel car.. I was really lost into those colors. When I came out... the sun was really blue!!!

9 Comments:

At Monday, April 03, 2006 11:54:00 PM, Blogger Deepak said...

Hey i missed this time :(

Where are the pics ??

 
At Tuesday, April 04, 2006 8:16:00 PM, Blogger cK said...

Looking forward for pics??????

 
At Wednesday, April 05, 2006 6:45:00 AM, Blogger Prafulla said...

Missed digicam last time... will take pics this saturday for sure!

 
At Wednesday, April 05, 2006 12:01:00 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

hi all


the things suggested by rahul have already been brainstormed by Peeyush and other AID volunteers. Peeyush is known for his exploits with education intiatives and joy of learnign kits not only with AID Delhi but also with AID Bangalore. He will lead AID Delhi's focus area called "Education". I would suggest that you guys talk to him soon about course structure in MC.
His email address is

peeyush DOT kul AT gmail DOT com

(the email address has DOT n AT to prevent spam).


cheers :)
anirban

about me : I am associated with three AID chapters : AID Delhi, AID Kolkata and AID Calgary. I have mostly volunteered for AID Delhi till I left for Calgary on 14th march 2006. AID Kolkata is the latest chapter I have been trying to push.hoping for the best.

 
At Wednesday, April 05, 2006 12:48:00 PM, Blogger Deepak said...

Hey great to see you rahul here....

I didn't exptected that you will make out...

Great man!...

Your suggestions were awesome, but regarding health chart i don't know if children there even know that they need to brush their teeth too.. or there is something like tooth brush...

We are here to teach them.. cool..

So finalized, this saturday the topic for children is going to be Health and food.

But Doctor saab we really need somebody like you... there are few small kids who really are not in a good state.. bleeding, wounds, soreness etc can be commonly seen on thier body...

We even don't know which medicine to bring up...

As of now i'm thinking of discussing this with one doc in my department. I guess till Rahul is busy with his studies we may get him wih us. infact his name is also Rahul :)

Need to discuss lots of things for this Saturday visit, meet you all there....

 
At Wednesday, April 05, 2006 10:10:00 PM, Blogger Prafulla said...

It was really good to read entries from rahul and anirban.. I feel that the ball is rolling now!! :-)

Lets meet this saturday then and put some actions on our discussions.

 
At Thursday, April 06, 2006 12:53:00 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

hi all

if you need a doctor for health related classes then you can contact AID volunteer gunjan sharma

(gnjn DOT shrm AT gmail DOT com)

He is a dentist. Email him and see if he is free to take classes. He did take classes in couple of projects and they were good and the kids had loads of fun during his class.

 
At Thursday, April 06, 2006 10:54:00 PM, Blogger Deepak said...

Hey Anirban,

thats cool..

can you mail me hi number so that i can call him right away. I don't want to delay it by one more week.

 
At Thursday, April 13, 2006 3:36:00 AM, Blogger Tina said...

Was out of town earlier..
Read the new posts and comments..
Great goin guys.

 

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