It's taken me a week to get the videos uploaded so that I can post them here, but I think I have the technology worked out. This final post on India is a video glimpse of Riverside School, which we visited in March.
The first video shows the welcome we got as we entered campus. The children had lined the walkways to the guesthouse and were welcoming our team of eight people as we walked toward our lodging. It was a bit overwhelming. I would not want to be royalty.
The second video shows a first grade classroom. We walked in to find no teacher, but the kids (for the most part) were getting down to work. Note the Hannah Montana book bag in front of the girl with the red headband... And you'll enjoy the giggly kids at the end.
The next two videos show the girls singing at their worship time in the Big Girls' Hostel. The harmonies come from our group members; I never heard the students sing harmonies while we were there. But wow, can they sing!
The next video shows Joylene (the Big Girls' Hostel dean, whose degree is in botany) teaching. We had wandered into her third grade reading classroom, and she graciously allowed us to stand in the back of the room and watch. We learned as much about the teaching, learning and curriculum during that time, I think, as we learned in conversations and asking questions the entire rest of the time we were there. We saw the needs, but we also saw her innate talent and her ability to connect with the students.
On our third night at Riverside School, it rained. I loved it! The rain poured down, washing the dust off the school roofs and showing them to be blue instead of brown. And it settled much of the brown ash and dirt that had been in the air.
The last night we were at the school, the students put on a cultural show for us. While they waited for the show to begin, they sang about the wise man and the foolish man:
Finally, a short clip of one of the seven dances they put on, each depicting one of the seven states of northeast India. This was my favorite.
I couldn't see the videos :(
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed every one of the videos. (it must have taken a while to upload them all!)
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