Joining Hands Nepal
A Family Orphan HomeArchive for April, 2012
Exploring the World Outside & In
By Flore (Phul), Volunteer, Netherlands
I’ve been here for one month now and it’s been wonderful. It’s so nice that there is enough time to spend a whole week on the same subject. We spent seven English Conversation Classes talking about the world. What is the difference between a country and a continent? Where do I live? What do we know about North & South America? Which countries are in Europe? We talked about the tango from Spain, Mexican food, polar bears in Alaska, the Eiffel tower in France and snorkeling around the Maldives. For the younger children it was a bit difficult. The last class I was very happy and proud because they remembered a lot. Even Venezuela, Suriname and Cambodia, all hard to pronounce.
And last week we drew. Every day between 8.00 am and 9.00 am the girls’ room was filled with pages, pencils, colours, lovely & concentrated children, and many ideas. After one week of daily drawing lessons we have drawings of dragons, names, people, fantasy fishes, jungles, princesses and each other. I’m glad that the apples are now also purple instead of only green and red. And that they all make something totally different. Not eight of the same dragons anymore! In other words, I’m sure that they are a little bit more creative now. Really important, isn’t it? If they don’t forget this thing ‘creative’, it will help them forever. Hopefully one day they will understand that copying is not good. Be different! In short: I’m having a great time here. And I’m enjoying to teach them more and more!
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