Time for a story!
…we gave them sheets of paper and asked them to write short stories. They immediately got to work. After they had written it we had acted it out. They loved the acting out bit! The role play excited them to bits. We all swapped roles every time for each story! It was such a treat to see them enjoy themselves and obviously we enjoyed ourselves as well.
They loved yelling on top of their voices when we were singing songs. It was so flattering when they said that they didn’t want to go any other stall, but wanted to sing and dance with us.
Although I was disappointed that not many kids came to our stall, we were able to accomplish so much more with a smaller crowd. So that compensated immensely.
What ultimately made my day was when these 2 girls who were in our stall the previous week came up to me and told me, “This is for you, Akka” and gave me a hand made purse which was painted and had the word “happy” written across it. It was one of those heart-melting moments that I wouldn’t trade for the world.
— Shravanthi