I'm about halfway through my journey and I wanted to say how grateful I am to everyone who has read my blog, sent emails, sent texts, fb messages, sent packages! It's amazing how I can be on the other side of the world and still manage to feel so incredibly loved and cared for. Thank You. Shukriya.
So, I'm going to go ahead and say I have a favorite child, Alisha. Alisha didn't come for a week and a half- until TODAY!! And actually, today work was soooo wonderful for that reason and others. We introduced a "feelings" lesson and I really loved it. We acted out the emotions and then all the children had to come up and say "I Feel [and point to/say an emotion]" It came out more like "Ayeah feela sud" when they actually didn't feel sad, they just wanted to act out having a temper tantrum. I'll pretend it was therapeutic for all of them. We also traced all the children's hands "hahd" in black marker and then I constructed a tree and used all the brightly decorated hands- some decorated with Henna designs by the older girls, to make a hand tree. Alisha followed me around all afternoon. We played "circle round the garden" and patty cake together. She's probably about 3.
After work, I went to get my salwar (the long shirt I am wearing in the picture) and a dress tailored- all for $2.00- 80 rupees.
Namaste,
Erin Lee
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