Eager Student

03/25/2011 at 9:34 am · Filed under Children, Education and tagged: education, English, language, Nepali, orphan home

This morning, while sitting together in the kitchen and cooking our morning meal, our eldest boy, Balaram, displayed his eagerness to learn English. Dropping the shy and quiet mask with which he had arrived, he began to ask the names of different foods in English. Khorsani is chili pepper. Lasun is garlic. Dhania is cilantro. At three new words it was already becoming difficult to remember all of the words, so rather than quit while ahead of the one new word a day we suggested he learn, he instead ran down to his room to get a notebook so he could write down the 3 new words and then ask more. Besar is turmeric. Kerau is pea. And on down the list of foods we were cooking for our morning meal. It is already apparent Balaram is eager to use the advantages provided at our orphan home to try to excel in English, an opportunity not afforded to him at his old government school and isolated village. We will encourage that eagerness, and hopefully he will be a model to the other, younger children.

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