Day 4 and all is well! Today Ailbhe, Lisa, Lia, and Caoimhe stayed here in St.Mary's, to work in the Mary Rice centre for children with intellectual disabilities. This work is hard but extremely rewarding and it gives us an opportunity to work one on one with these beautiful kids! In the Mary Rice Centre the girls were working with the children on the computers teaching them how to save and open documents.
The other girls worked in St.Georges for the day, and started off playing with all the children in the yard. Everyone in the school was eagerly practising for sports day tomorrow, so our time in the morning was spent playing numerous games with all the students, including the hand clapping games "Boom boom cha cha", "January, February" and the infamous "Chips chips chips!". After a long morning in the sun, we had a well deserved cup of tea and went back down to St. Georges to take a few students into a classroom, where we spent our time making Valentine's day cards and playing bingo! We then enjoyed a delicious lunch, and headed back to St. Mary's on the metro in the afternoon.
Later we walked through the busy streets of Kolkata to a shopping centre about 40 mins away. Here we did some shopping and after we took a local bus home. This was an experience! We all really enjoyed this but we were definitely glad we had two of the senior students from St Mary's and Brother Ronnie to show us around! Back at St Mary's Sophie, Ailbhe, Lilia and Suzanna helped at the soup kitchen, handing out rice, soup and bananas to some of the local homeless people. We are all about to sit down to do a reflection and then we will go to bed :)
The other girls worked in St.Georges for the day, and started off playing with all the children in the yard. Everyone in the school was eagerly practising for sports day tomorrow, so our time in the morning was spent playing numerous games with all the students, including the hand clapping games "Boom boom cha cha", "January, February" and the infamous "Chips chips chips!". After a long morning in the sun, we had a well deserved cup of tea and went back down to St. Georges to take a few students into a classroom, where we spent our time making Valentine's day cards and playing bingo! We then enjoyed a delicious lunch, and headed back to St. Mary's on the metro in the afternoon.
Later we walked through the busy streets of Kolkata to a shopping centre about 40 mins away. Here we did some shopping and after we took a local bus home. This was an experience! We all really enjoyed this but we were definitely glad we had two of the senior students from St Mary's and Brother Ronnie to show us around! Back at St Mary's Sophie, Ailbhe, Lilia and Suzanna helped at the soup kitchen, handing out rice, soup and bananas to some of the local homeless people. We are all about to sit down to do a reflection and then we will go to bed :)
HAPPY VALENTINES DAY!
Gorgeous photos girls! Delighted to talk to you today Síofra and to hear how much you are all enjoying teaching :) Happy Valentine’s Day ❤️🌺 love Mum xx
ReplyDeleteGreetings from Form 2
ReplyDeleteWe have read your blog and it sounds fantastic and hard work. The photos are lovely. It's so nice to see the smiles on everyone's face.
We say a special hello to Kate and Holly from Ali and Rachel xoxo
You all look really busy and we hope you have won some of the events at sports day. It's great to see you sharing your skills with the children;
it's a wonderful experience and you have made us exited to go ourselves. Come back soon Ms O'Leary and Ms Quigley as we are lost in Maths class !!!
Enjoy the next few days,
love from Form 2 with Ms Greehy and Mrs Moiselle.
Hello to our lovely Lotus Ladies from Ms Glynn and Mrs Moiselle. Thinking of you all and the great work you are doing in St George's and St Mary's. The candle is lighting each day in the Staffroom, and at home with Ms Glynn. We are delighted that you saw the Hope ambulance for which Ms Mooney worked so hard. The colours in the photos are so vibrant, and they reflect the happiness you are all experiencing. With you all in spirit.
ReplyDelete2 Alpha also send our greetings. We love your account and the photos you have shared. It looks like a great experience and you all look so happy. Lots of us would love to follow in your footsteps when we get to 5th Year. It's great to see you spending individual time with the students, you seem to be working intently with enthusiasm. Your outfits are great, we love the genie pants!!
ReplyDeleteHeather says Hi to Holly and we all miss Ms Quigley and Ms O'Leary :)
We hope the food is nice and that you have a safe journey home xoxo
2Alpha with Ms Molloy and Mrs Moiselle