Hi,
The children I have been working with this week have been turning themselves into jungle animals!! The sounds of 'The Lion sleeps tonight' and 'Wimoweh' have been echoing around the slums and Elmer's ears will certainly have been burning, as the story has been told, acted out, and translated into Hindi for all the children to enjoy. If you are wondering who 'Elmer' is, he is a brightly coloured elephant who is 'different' - he tries to change and be the same as all other grey elephants but then realises that its 'ok to be different' - in fact, everyone loves him the way he is! We had a great time exploring that theme and agreeing, we are all special - God has made us to be unique and so being different is OK!
Animals seems to be a bit of theme this week - on our way to work we always pass cows and bullocks strolling down the road, sitting beside or in major roads or grazing on rubbish heaps. Yesterday, Ken saw the only cat we've seen, (where have all the cats gone?) and sometimes, if we're lucky, we've spotted a monkey or two.Then there are of course, hundreds of stray dogs dashing across busy roads (most seem to be very road-wise and thankfully make it). Yesterday we noticed the two parrots who featured in an earlier blog, seem to be back in our trees - could this be the first sign of spring? With no cuckoo, perhaps its the 'parrot'?
Amazingly, just as I am typing Ken shouts to come quickly into the kitchen and there, sitting on the railing of the balcony is a large monkey!!!! He obviously wanted to feature in this weeks blog!! Here he is and with a friend slowly strolling off. First time we have seen them around the flat!
We are beginning to think about our next ventures when we leave Delhi. We had a lovley evening with Freddy and Kiran last night (thank you for your kind hospitality). We were able to chat over possible plans and it seems quite likely that we will return to Delhi later in the year and continue our teaching with our students.
Our visa ends on 1st March and we fly to Thailand and our travels will continue from there.
Off for more monkey spotting!!!
Love Ken and Heather xx
The children I have been working with this week have been turning themselves into jungle animals!! The sounds of 'The Lion sleeps tonight' and 'Wimoweh' have been echoing around the slums and Elmer's ears will certainly have been burning, as the story has been told, acted out, and translated into Hindi for all the children to enjoy. If you are wondering who 'Elmer' is, he is a brightly coloured elephant who is 'different' - he tries to change and be the same as all other grey elephants but then realises that its 'ok to be different' - in fact, everyone loves him the way he is! We had a great time exploring that theme and agreeing, we are all special - God has made us to be unique and so being different is OK!
Animals seems to be a bit of theme this week - on our way to work we always pass cows and bullocks strolling down the road, sitting beside or in major roads or grazing on rubbish heaps. Yesterday, Ken saw the only cat we've seen, (where have all the cats gone?) and sometimes, if we're lucky, we've spotted a monkey or two.Then there are of course, hundreds of stray dogs dashing across busy roads (most seem to be very road-wise and thankfully make it). Yesterday we noticed the two parrots who featured in an earlier blog, seem to be back in our trees - could this be the first sign of spring? With no cuckoo, perhaps its the 'parrot'?
Amazingly, just as I am typing Ken shouts to come quickly into the kitchen and there, sitting on the railing of the balcony is a large monkey!!!! He obviously wanted to feature in this weeks blog!! Here he is and with a friend slowly strolling off. First time we have seen them around the flat!
We are beginning to think about our next ventures when we leave Delhi. We had a lovley evening with Freddy and Kiran last night (thank you for your kind hospitality). We were able to chat over possible plans and it seems quite likely that we will return to Delhi later in the year and continue our teaching with our students.
Our visa ends on 1st March and we fly to Thailand and our travels will continue from there.
Off for more monkey spotting!!!
Love Ken and Heather xx
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