Atoms!

After the kiddies went off to school I went to Kavita’s room to watch a movie called Heropanti… a love story about two people who shouldn’t be allowed to love each other.  I am starting to fall in love with Bollywood movies, there is so much singing and dancing in them that I am always smiling.  When the movie finished it was just about time for lunch and everyone was returning home.  My phone seems to have become the object of play and Sita is always holding it watching Pokémon on my TV app.  I eventually have to take it away and tell them to go play.  When it came to study time, Rashmi told all about how the teaching system is messed up and how you can’t really consider it teaching because the teachers just give the students what they are given to teach.  They don’t do anything fun to explain, they just write things down on the board and the kids rewrite it and that would be the lesson for the day.  Sometimes the kids don’t even understand what was taught but have a test on it the next day so all they do is memorize without understanding it.  To be honest I started getting a bit frustrated hearing about the education system and how ridiculous it was.  So to help out I taught the grade 9’s about atoms, they had to learn the whole chapter in a day and then tomorrow they would start a new chapter on something else.  I did my best to help them understand what everything was but to be honest I was having trouble myself in remembering what was what.  By the end of the lesson I felt like I could have done a way better job… so I emailed my grade 11-science teacher Mr. Wiebe who I think knows everything there is to know and I absolutely adore him.  Hopefully in the morning I would have all the information I would need to know to actually teach my new students. 

After teaching it was playtime again and of course I was pulled this way and that to come play here and there.  I was constantly sliding down the concrete play slide and running away from this and that.  When the bell rang for everyone to get ready for Arati I couldn’t have been more happy for it and retreated to Sonja’s room to get my hair brushed and done up.  When it was time to go to Arati we lined up and ran off to the prayer room.  We sat down and began singing our normal songs but Kavita saw that the songbook was touching my feet and snatched it away and said something in Hindi and then kissed the book.  I smiled and then started giggling and then had a full out laugh attack.  Soon I was crying cause I was laughing so hard and I couldn’t control myself… I felt so bad cause there was nothing I could do to stop myself.  Guatum, who is the boss of Arati, started staring me down and I knew I would have to be quite or I would get in trouble… but then some of the other girls started giggling too.  By the end of Arati Guatum walked over to me and pointed to the door and I left the room laughing my butt off, seconds later prayers were done and everyone left laughing as well. 

Dinner was normal… everyone talking and not being eating dinner in silence and food scattering all over the floor.  When dinner was done I took my warm milk outside and sat in the cold and soon I had Deepak and Guatum asking me questions about cars and the school system and movies… when I give an answer Deepak will just keep asking why until I run out of explanations.

I didn’t sleep in my own today instead I slept in Sonjas bed… we had a secret sleepover and Rashmi was not allowed to know about it.  In the morning there is no school so we have a huge workout in the morning… can’t wait to get up at and run at 6:30!