Initially we started out with the art and craft stall by teaching children to make birds. We advertised to the children by showing the birds so that it would impress them. Then as children started to flock in, we found it really hard to teach every other child how to...
Little Tackle Indian Idol..
The day did start certainly on a challenging note. As very few kids turned up in the beginning. In the beginning with my broken Kannada i asked kids if they were interested in ‘haddu’, but none of them were willing to come to our stall. So to allure the...
Feeling special on Saturdays.
It was the usual Saturday, I reached the caravan venue after 2 hours of intellectual torture. The weather was calm and cool, and soon the kids started coming in. We had a plan and materials set for them only for us to change it again, thanks to not knowing Kannada. So...
Dancing in the rain!!
It was a rainy day but it refused to dampen the spirits of any of the kids. They came in by the dozens but much lesser than before. Since the number was lesser we combined groups. They began to do the newspaper dance. In some rather hilarious positions, ranging from...
Children are always better teachers.
The Caravan session started off with heavy rains and not many kids in the beginning. Moreover there weren’t many kids coming to our stall so we decided to make paper birds and show them around to grasp the interest of the kids. It worked as soon we had lots of...
The perfect stress buster…
I was a little tensed because i reached the venue a bit late. I din’t know how many children would turn up but was hugely surprised to see around 150 kids bustling with energy and enthusiasm. We started with a 3-legged race, which the kids seemed to love....
The Crazy boys..
For the first time in my life i never got irritated even for a moment despite such chaos and naughty kids. may be because i was expecting it. Got my childhood back when i danced (Ganpathi dance) crazy with the kids. Happy and emotional when i had 5 of them clinging on...
Its crazy but its fun, its chaotic but its worthwhile…..
I arrived at the school at 2 in the afternoon feeling anxious and excited at the same time. I first thing I noticed when I entered was that there were a large number of children who had turned up. The second thing I realized was that it was going to be a lot of fun...
Moments I cherish….
Well, when I first arrived I could see around say 40 kids-which was basically how much I expected after the orientation programme. But after we made the circle I realized there were a lot more kids and thats when I had this adrenaline rush within me. Once we started...
Feeling like a child.
Before reaching the place,i was bit nervous of how it would go on today.. a clan of kids who are from a different language-the difficulty with communication… the entire responsibility of managing them..handling them.Then the first step that gave me a clear...
It was a flower from them…
For a change I wasn’t nervous since I love children and knew I could bond with them well. After our individual registration we all stood in a circle with the kids and as I was looking for a place to stand I remember being called by a few girls to stand with them...
In just one day at the Caravan….
It was just another Saturday. But turned exciting when a 150 little faces popped up screaming ‘Akka, hiiiiii.’ First days are stereotypically awkward. But with these little bundle of joys it was way better than expected. The weather was perfect and our...