I was a little hesitant when I first reached the school even though it was my second time as I had shifted to a new venue. But the moment I entered the school grounds, the children were so excited to see more new faces that I didn’t even get a moment to collect...
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Kabaddi kabaddi kabaddi
We had a fewer number of children at the caravan this week, which I feel made it easier to pay a little more attention to the smaller groups. I was first a part of Kabaddi with the boys and then throwball with the girls. There was a marked difference in the energy...
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...
A smile means friendship to everyone
I learned the word for smile in Kannada. Their smile was the most important thing which influenced me. They are very caring towards us. Most of the children enquired about the personal belongings I lost at last week’s Caravan. I thought they had forgotten...
Strangers yesterday are brothers today
“Strangers yesterday are brothers today,Awful then are now awesome all day.Rowdy, impish and energetic at bestStopping never are they their questA large world of tender birds,Preparing flight to the distant woods.” Start of the day was...
Dance like there’s no tomorrow
…I was asked to repeat this entire process (of playing music and dancing) but with just the boys because they never properly got a chance to dance. They obviously went crazy dancing as well, if not more so than the girls. There was one boy in particular I just...
Dance and friendship bands!
When we reached we were all awestruck considering the children as always outnumbered the volunteers. We weren’t prepared to handle the crowd. Well that’s what we thought atleast. It wasn’t raining so the turn out was pretty amazing. The kids came...
To Paris on a bicycle
…I was assigned to the music stall but due to the lack of volunteers, I was moved to the sports stall, not something I was very pleased about considering my ‘not so in shape’ physique but the camaraderie and enthusiasm the kids showed in every game they played...
First day
As a couple of other tacklers and I made our way through some roundabout route the auto-driver decided to take, and being outrageously overcharged, we thought that our mood and energy had hit rock bottom. The deserted lane to the school...
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!...
What do you think about me??
Reached caravan at 2:20 pm. Just few Tacklers were there that time and I joined the registration team. I was astounded by the number of kids there and they were just awesome. As we were finishing with the registration the remaining Tacklers joined in. The...
Warning – High Voltage SMILES!!
I, personally, had a brilliant experience. The kids were just plain adorable. We were warmly welcomed by them just as we arrived. They didn’t even know who we were but they just thought “ah what the heck, let’s give them an enthu-cutlet greetings,...
Pictures speak a thousand words!!
When I sat to reach the caravan, the school, the place where I would be going to every Saturday now, I had mixed feelings. I was unsure how this whole thing would fall into place, I was nervous, I was think about how would I manage kids and that too all at once and...
With age comes responsibilities!!
It was a tiring, yet highly exciting journey to A. Narayanpura, on the first day of internship with tackle caravan. we expected a maximum of 40-50 children to turn up.As we got into the school premises we were astounded to find a huge number of children already...
My Precious Toy!!
It was nice sunny day. We reached A Narayanapura at 2:40 pm. Around 50 boys were at the stall. So it was extremely chaotic. The children were already playing the “lion and cow” game. They all seemed completely involved in the game so we didn’t want...
The Magic of Music!!
As I entered the caravan today, I could only see about 20-30 children outside playing some game. I thought that was the total number of children, because I heard in the caravan that happened last Saturday was about 150. However when I entered the school building,...
Language No Barrier !!
As soon as we arrived, we were overwhelmed by the number of children that had shown up. All of them all lined up waiting to be registered. Along with two other Tacklers, we began registering all of them, giving them their name tags which they seemed to like. Having no...
Facing the giants!!
To be honest, I’m not very good with children. In fact, I used to dislike spending any time with them at all. When I took up this internship, it was with a view to overcome my inhibitions as well as do something productive in the world and actually volunteer for...
My Hero for the Day!!
We didn’t have many kids at the stall initially. But slowly the kids started coming and super excited to learn how to make a bird. The language problem sort of gave me a little bump as I had to tell them how to fold and what to do exactly. But with help from other...