They liked the feel of mud, the concept of building by self and playing with mud while building it. They worked in team, they worked with Seenppa uncle…they wanted to make more.
Once again we tried opening our jammed car door..it was an opportunity to understand how doors in the car worked…many things which we either take for granted or we stay away from them, repairing car is one of them. We tried opening many times, watched videos to understand how car door works…we have yet to make a trip to car garage.
Some cooked Gulab Jamun and first round it was gooey, somewhere our measurements went wrong. Making syrup for GulamJamun we debated on liters and grams (sugar was in gms while water was in litres). ….some cooked omelette and felt ‘we can cook’….some made Puri together. One of our guest make hot hot vada for us…cooking becomes a great place to learn many things including why Puri’s are hard to chew and usage of chat masala to measurements to chemical properties of different materials.
Hill behind campus inspired some to go for night trek. Getting ready for night trek was an experience. In the beginning it was fear (of snakes) which ruled, they climbed with fear using moon light and torches. When they reached at top they did not want to come back as they enjoyed cool breeze and hill bathing in moon light. They wanted to do more.
Few kids stayed with origami for few days. One started, others got inspired and they worked non stop, on their own, using youtube and peers. They tried, they inspired, they failed, they taught each other.
It began with one of the parent sharing her wish to do something for community. We planned to clean up Kelmanagalm railway station. After talk with the station master we understood various issues including missing dustbins. So we had the challenge to install a dustbin which has no resale value at the same time collects garbage. Two team worked – one to make dustbin and other to clean garbage thrown in the bushes at the side of the platform. At times it felt yukky to pick garbage (diapers, plastic, paper cups) but the team continued. Weather was hot, some took breaks, some continued…
Cloudy weather inspired some of us to paint on canvas…
One wanted to stitch a pink and white frilly dress but got stuck to draw the shape, shifted to making stitching hand gloves, another child got inspired and repaired a torn pillow. Small rocks and stones inspired us to paint on them, some choose to paint dogs while some painted house and trees.
One just tried making a swing to use hand drill machine.
One was busy with making a card for mother with Madhubani painting.
In the midst of all this we continued to work on campus care with cleaning and mopping.