Tuesday, September 15, 2009
On the way to the bazaar you walk down this road and at one part there are these tent things made out of old tarps and stuff where these homeless people live and its so sad because there are 4 kids all below what looks like the age of 7 and they are so cute and I always feel terrible when I walk by knowing that I get to go back to a warm bed and if it rains I don't have to be out in it and I have so much stuff that I don't really need that they could use. Anyway I just always feel really sad. But that's india. I don't know if I told you this but when we were in Dehli I have never seen so much poverty in my life. The morning we left I must have seen around 70-90 people sleeping on the street and that was only on one side of the street. We had little kids come up to us and ask for money. There was this one little boy that would play the drum while this little girl danced and after they went around asking us for money and it was so hard not to look them in the eye and just ignore them when you know that there is nothing they can do to help their situation. I mean they can't really get a job yet and who knows where the money they do get actully goes. It's also really sad because you see a lot of homeless men, old women and children but not to many teen - 30 or so looking girls...which makes you wonder what they are doing to not be on the street, its so sad. And the train ride up, you see all these small towns and where these people live and it is crazy. But it is so beautiful.
Sunday, September 13, 2009
Hey Everyone!
First off I'm sorry I haven't written in a while, things have been super busy over here but I have been having the time of my life. I don't have much access to internet so it is hard to post on the blog but I am sending messages to my mom and having her post for me - and there are some pictures as well :). Today I just got back from the bazaar which was so much fun! Two of my friends and I just sat at this one Café for about 2 hours - it was so much fun and relaxing. I got a bagel with an omlette, 3 cookies, a tea, and a coffee and it all cost me 160 rupees - around 3 or 4 US dollars!! It's crazy how cheap everything is over here. I also got some christmas presents for mom but I can't say what they are because she will be reading this - haha :) Mom plans to come over around the 7 or so of December. I get out of school on the 12th and then so she will stay in a hotel until I am done exam week and then we are hoping to possibly travel to the coast for Christmas break. Then, on January 5th, we are going on the winter tour where we get to travel all around India until I start school again on February 10th. Their winter break is longer than their summer break which I think is really funny!
School has been going well, the classes are bigger in size than the ones at KUA so that has taken a bit of getting used to but it's really not that bad and I like I'll my teachers. I don't know if I have already written this, but I am taking Hindi! It's really fun and I like the teacher - I can understand some words which is really cool but they speak so fast it's hard to understand! The locals also laugh at you if you try and speak Hindi because we have a weird accent but it's fun to try anyways - today I asked for a spoon in Hindi "Ek chammach ap dijyee" when we were at the café even though the lady spoke english I wanted to try! It's a really they have the verb always at the end of the sentence which can be really confusing! So if I said the book is on the table "Kitab mez per hai" it would be literlly translated as "book table on is" so that has been a little hard!
Tonight we have karyoke night which should be really funny, every weekend there is a committee that plans activities like movies, dances, and what not so that we have things to do on Saturday nights.
Oh, and I am also starting a drama activity where we can go and teach drama to little kids at the near by school and at an orphanage. I hope to start it this weekend, and I'm going to get some kids from my drama class to help me. We can play some theater games which the kids and maybe perform a scene or something but I just want them to be able to enjoy themselves and have a good time. We are first going to go to the orphanage and there are 9 boys between the ages of 10 and 14 that want to do this drama class -that should be really fun and crazy at the same time! Haha!
Anyways, I hope to hear from you all, you can comment on this if you like or email me if you want, my email iscatherinechivers@woodstock.ac.in. I hope all is going well and I hope to post on this more often I promise!
Until next time,
Catherine! :)
First off I'm sorry I haven't written in a while, things have been super busy over here but I have been having the time of my life. I don't have much access to internet so it is hard to post on the blog but I am sending messages to my mom and having her post for me - and there are some pictures as well :). Today I just got back from the bazaar which was so much fun! Two of my friends and I just sat at this one Café for about 2 hours - it was so much fun and relaxing. I got a bagel with an omlette, 3 cookies, a tea, and a coffee and it all cost me 160 rupees - around 3 or 4 US dollars!! It's crazy how cheap everything is over here. I also got some christmas presents for mom but I can't say what they are because she will be reading this - haha :) Mom plans to come over around the 7 or so of December. I get out of school on the 12th and then so she will stay in a hotel until I am done exam week and then we are hoping to possibly travel to the coast for Christmas break. Then, on January 5th, we are going on the winter tour where we get to travel all around India until I start school again on February 10th. Their winter break is longer than their summer break which I think is really funny!
School has been going well, the classes are bigger in size than the ones at KUA so that has taken a bit of getting used to but it's really not that bad and I like I'll my teachers. I don't know if I have already written this, but I am taking Hindi! It's really fun and I like the teacher - I can understand some words which is really cool but they speak so fast it's hard to understand! The locals also laugh at you if you try and speak Hindi because we have a weird accent but it's fun to try anyways - today I asked for a spoon in Hindi "Ek chammach ap dijyee" when we were at the café even though the lady spoke english I wanted to try! It's a really they have the verb always at the end of the sentence which can be really confusing! So if I said the book is on the table "Kitab mez per hai" it would be literlly translated as "book table on is" so that has been a little hard!
Tonight we have karyoke night which should be really funny, every weekend there is a committee that plans activities like movies, dances, and what not so that we have things to do on Saturday nights.
Oh, and I am also starting a drama activity where we can go and teach drama to little kids at the near by school and at an orphanage. I hope to start it this weekend, and I'm going to get some kids from my drama class to help me. We can play some theater games which the kids and maybe perform a scene or something but I just want them to be able to enjoy themselves and have a good time. We are first going to go to the orphanage and there are 9 boys between the ages of 10 and 14 that want to do this drama class -that should be really fun and crazy at the same time! Haha!
Anyways, I hope to hear from you all, you can comment on this if you like or email me if you want, my email iscatherinechivers@woodstock.ac.in. I hope all is going well and I hope to post on this more often I promise!
Until next time,
Catherine! :)
Thursday, September 10, 2009
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