More boys, more chaos!
Expecting notorious traffic, as it usually is on Saturdays, and about a hundred wild, energetic children, we arrived at the A. Narayanapura camp. To our surprise, there weren’t as many children as there were the last time, nor the standard amount of traffic. Yet there weren’t as many volunteers either. To throw us further into chaos, the boys outnumbered the girls, or so it seemed. Starting the activities off with the girls, four volunteers, including myself, played different games with the girls to occupy their time and to me, it seemed like they weren’t even bothered about what the game was, simply because they were happy to be spending any amount of time with us. Of course, when the actual dancing began, that’s when they all went crazy. After that, the boys rushed in, and those are always when I end up facing any challenges. Sorting out fights, trying to calm them down and getting them to pay attention is always a part of the package with the boys. I was glad to see that they were more receptive to Bombing The City than the girls (bombs are a boy thing, maybe? I don’t know!). I had to tackle a few overly-enthusiastic boys and try not toppling over from the avalanche of children that came at me when everyone rushed to their ‘cities’, but it was a fun experience…
–Trisha Singh