..from thedailymash.co.uk a fantastic news satire website
http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/business/firm-offers-'twats%11only'-activity-holidays-200901281539/
Friday 6 March 2009
Deaf Poets Society
location:the local jaipur internet cafe, India
Hello there1 Its ben a little too long since I last updated, and for that, I apologise. But not to worry for Im here now, in fantastic form, and all ready to regale some old war stories. When IU left you I was about to start my teaching, and I had very little clue as to what to expect. Well I'm 3 weeks into it, one week to go, and Id like to think Im a little more informed. First of all the teaching. Im teaching with three other volunteers, my age, theatre studies ("drama" for the state school folks) at two different schools. The first is a primary school, where we have hindi speaking kids of about 3, who have no interest in drama, and are happy to run up and down the playground while we think up excuses for them to do just that. We have recently been told we're splitting up into groups to take on different projects with the different children, and i have very little hopein getting my five kids to perform and english language skit about a book drive. Yesterday, after 35 mins hard graph(is that the word, graph? it doesnt look right), I managed to get one almost audible, almost comprehensible line of "Thank you, now we have more books" from who im afraid to say was the most gifted child there.
The other school offers much more relief. We're teaching at a deaf school, children aged about 10-13, and this is the school I much prefer to be at. When we first arrived, we were given very little assistance or clues as to how we were to go about doing it (due to none of us having the first clue of sign language), and the atmosphere in the school was completely alien, and silent. That said, we found a way, and after a few sessions we had them performing little self made shorts for us! Now, weve got a full hour erformancefrom them, and teaching them is easily my favourite part of my stay, they are such fun, and weve got to know each of them while we're doing it.
Thats part one of my stay here so far, part two will be along later, and Ill write up the other half of thistrip- our free time, stories of which will include a conversation in french with an indian clown, discussing bollywood in the car of a failing rajastani film star, and listening to disneys arabian nights on camelsas we cross the desert!
Off to Pushkar now, talk later .
Love and Regards,
Laurie "Stanislavski" Kearns
Hello there1 Its ben a little too long since I last updated, and for that, I apologise. But not to worry for Im here now, in fantastic form, and all ready to regale some old war stories. When IU left you I was about to start my teaching, and I had very little clue as to what to expect. Well I'm 3 weeks into it, one week to go, and Id like to think Im a little more informed. First of all the teaching. Im teaching with three other volunteers, my age, theatre studies ("drama" for the state school folks) at two different schools. The first is a primary school, where we have hindi speaking kids of about 3, who have no interest in drama, and are happy to run up and down the playground while we think up excuses for them to do just that. We have recently been told we're splitting up into groups to take on different projects with the different children, and i have very little hopein getting my five kids to perform and english language skit about a book drive. Yesterday, after 35 mins hard graph(is that the word, graph? it doesnt look right), I managed to get one almost audible, almost comprehensible line of "Thank you, now we have more books" from who im afraid to say was the most gifted child there.
The other school offers much more relief. We're teaching at a deaf school, children aged about 10-13, and this is the school I much prefer to be at. When we first arrived, we were given very little assistance or clues as to how we were to go about doing it (due to none of us having the first clue of sign language), and the atmosphere in the school was completely alien, and silent. That said, we found a way, and after a few sessions we had them performing little self made shorts for us! Now, weve got a full hour erformancefrom them, and teaching them is easily my favourite part of my stay, they are such fun, and weve got to know each of them while we're doing it.
Thats part one of my stay here so far, part two will be along later, and Ill write up the other half of thistrip- our free time, stories of which will include a conversation in french with an indian clown, discussing bollywood in the car of a failing rajastani film star, and listening to disneys arabian nights on camelsas we cross the desert!
Off to Pushkar now, talk later .
Love and Regards,
Laurie "Stanislavski" Kearns
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