So I'm Going to the Office Today - Says the Teacher

Today when we arrived at our placement our teacher tells us that she has to go to the “office” and she won’t be back. (?) Ah…. This was only our third day here. But whatever – lol. So she left with no real instruction (obviously) she doesn’t speak English and we don’t speak Hindi. It turned out to be ok. Other than the fact that we had only 3 kids today... because 4 of them came and wouldn’t stop crying. Then they ran away, and their moms tried making them come back and they kept running out of the room and crying. So…….. I was like “omg omg omg omg” headache here. I was seriously wishing they would just leave because I couldn’t deal with all the bawling. Then after several minutes and attempts to run away, the 2 moms took them home!!!!!!!!!!! Yipeee. So we had actually 3 very good calm kids today. It was good.

I’m not sure if the teacher was actually at the office or not, but it’s fine. According to some of the other volunteers a lot of the teachers go shopping while the volunteers are here. Lol. So Melissa and I were wondering if she was shopping with the other 2 teachers who came to meet her. Oh well whatever. I noted that I thought it was interesting, she’d only met us 2 days and then just leaves us alone with all the kids. Can you imagine this happening in the US, right?

Anyway………..we handled it. Well….. kind of. Lol.

Love, Janelle