A Quick Catch Up

I’ve actually been super busy for the past couple days so now I have to play catch up again! So last Friday was just a regular day with going to Ram Nagar, interacting with volunteers at the office, and visiting a vasti. Even though this sounds like a pretty standard day there are some things that I want to share that made it quite interesting, but I’ll have to come back to that sometime later :)

So we’ve been going to Ram Nagar for about 2 weeks now and are now friends with the kids there. They’ve also finally realized it’s time to make lots of fun of my accent when I speak Marathi. I’m just going to take it as a sign that we’ve reached a good level of bonding and forgive them. Then Saturday afternoon, we went to the office for a meeting with all the shikshaks (teachers) from the abhyasikas. We had met all of them at the shibhir from 3 weeks ago and it was great to see them again! After discussing details for the schoolkit distribution and feedback from the shibhir (along with goofing off of course), we headed to a local volunteer’s home for dinner. Now this wasn’t just any normal dinner, his mom made us puran poli which is this amazing sweet stuffed paratha and a Maharashtrian specialty. I was afraid the motorcycle would topple over on our ride back because we left like 10 pounds heavier than we came! After this exhausting day we had to come back and finish up some planning for the official YFS orientation week. I knew that the week was packed with activities and helping the other interns adjust was not going to be easy, but I’ve just been so busy and tired…hence the late posts!