Hi, how are ya?
Today we split up once again, with Ms Quirke's group consisting of Emma O, Jessica and Lily-Ann going to St. Mary's and the rest remaining in St. George's.
In the morning the girls in George's made paper-and-straw rockets with classes 2, 3 and 4, who seemed to love launching their rockets around. Later in the afternoon we held a flag quiz and we have never seen any group as excited as when we held up the Indian flag, showing their enthusiasm by chanting 'INDIA! INDIA!' for about 30 seconds.
Meanwhile, after taking the metro into Dum Dum, Ms Quirke's group had a similar experience to the day before, taking a tour of the school before helping out in the Mary Rice Centre. On the tour, we visited class 11 and class 12 which were filled with students around our age who were working hard towards their final exams. They were prompted to tell us all about where they were from and what subjects they were doing. They also tried their best to teach us a small bit of Hindi (which Emma struggled with) and we tried to teach them a little bit of Irish (which Lily-Ann struggled with). After the tour we went to do some quite complex worksheets with the kids in the Mary Rice centre which involved a lot of confirming with each other that the word 'ninety' did in fact have an 'e' in it and many similar spelling errors.
Later when we arrived back we split into our groups once again and some teachers and students from St. George's took us on individual walking tours of the city where we got Pepsi and ice-cream and had great conversations with some of the older students. After that we played basketball and hung out with the kids again, but Orla had a tough time, and was victim of the third bird poop incident of the trip as well as getting walloped in the face by a football (twice). There were several attempted kidnappings (by his brother for tickles) on Emma R's adoptive child, Gummy bear which brought out Emma's inner 'mother bear'.
The end of the day was very relaxed today, with a bit of napping and a bit of singing before getting ready for our day of tourism tomorrow.
- Lily-Ann, Emma O'C, Jessica
The Blog posts and photos are great, girls, thanks. Glad you're all well and sounds like you're very popular and doing a great job. Well done! Enjoy your leisure time tomorrow, very well deserved. Best regards to you all. Keep well and mind each other. Mx
ReplyDeleteHello to everyone from freezing Dublin. Seeing you all in your colorful clothes and reading the accounts of your days so far is so uplifting. I get a great sense of teamwork, fun and camaraderie- well done to you all. It’s great to see you savouring every aspect of your visit, and really heartwarming to see how you have bonded with the children. Keep up the good work and treasure every moment. Blessings to all, Mrs Moiselle
ReplyDeleteHello to everyone from freezing Dublin. Seeing your colorful clothes and reading the daily blog is so uplifting. I get a great sense of teamwork, fun and camaraderie- well done to all. Great to see you savouring every aspect of your visit and seeing how you have bonded with the children is really heartwarming. Keep up the good work. Blessings to you all, Mrs Moiselle.
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