Tamil people all around the world celebrate Tamil new year on 14 April. It falls in the month of Chitterai, the first month of the Tamil solar calendar. It is a state holiday in the state of Tamil Nadu. On the occasion people visit temples and greet everyone Puthandu Vaazhthukkal. Beautiful, elaborate and colorful kollams are […]
Up early on Saturday in anticipation of our adventure to Pondicherry. We are leaving Chennai in high spirits with flowers in our hair. The road out of town is filled with new construction of apartment houses and businesses to meet Chennai’s growing Technology sector. We pass buses filled with students going to the many engineering […]
Today is the end of our first official week as Global Volunteers in Chennai, India and what a week it has been. The culture that seemed so overwhelming when we first arrived is starting to feel like the norm. The group working at Assisi School successfully taught the children hand washing and are working on the ABC’s, […]
Our first day of classes. We set out in 2 teams with excitement and trepidation. Steven had given us a description of the schools and number of students to expect, but we did not know what level of English we would find in our students. We had prepared as much as we could on Sunday […]
Message For the Day: Making Strides; Friends and Elephants Another two day blog and then hopefully a final one before I leave for the U.S. very early Saturday morning. I see the beautiful children at St. Thomas Hospital making progress everyday that I’m there. Some a little, some quite a lot. It does my heart […]
Message For the Day: Children, Paper Chains, and Being Truly Grateful Being a team of one has its disadvantages, like not having the time to blog everyday. I’ll do my best to get as much in here as I can in the time that I have. My mornings at the hospital have been very rewarding […]
All the Children had a great time working on their paper plates and making great designs and later they used these colorful paper plates to decorate their Library.
You know how yesterday was a day of “lasts” for me? Well…let me tell you about my day of “first” today. I had been requesting a massage since my third or fourth day here due to knotted shoulder muscles left over from my initial travel days. As the days went on I relaxed […]
Message For the Day: Autism and Music Rules Rani left us well sated yet again as Kathi and I left for what promised to be another rewarding day at St. Thomas. Karen and Sheeba were off to get Stela Mary a much needed eye exam. I was especially excited about the morning because while shopping […]
Wednesday, January 22, 2014 Message of day: They may not remember your name, your ago, or anything you said, but they will remember your smile and the joy you brought to them. Day 3 is complete. We ventured once again back to the Christ King school and spent another hour each with 4th and 5th […]