I am sick again. I've never been this sick before, at least that is how it feels. I got free medicine though by taking part in a study for Europeans... I'm British, didn't you know? haha, I did a great job of lying. But now I've broken one of the precepts of the vows I took with the Dalai Lama, one little lie hopefully won't affect me too much.
I found a small school to volunteer at, so I will be taking Hindi and volunteering at this school. You can see the project here: http://www.varanasivolunteer.blogspot.com or http://www.varanasiindiango.jimdo.com I taught my fist day of class yesterday, just before I got sick with a horrible fever that shook my body to the point that I couldn't even hold anything. The school is for street kids who don't have money to go to school otherwise. Many of these kids work and during the class one young boy had to leave to go to the tailor shop where he works. As you can imagine it's crazy. When I was in Ecuador I taught at another school similar to this with other exchange students. But here I am alone, there is no teacher for the evening classes. The school has both morning time and evening classes. So it was me, all lone trying to reign in 12 little monsters... haha, it was crazy, and in Ecuador at least I could speak Spanish. Now though I have almost no Hindi to speak of. It was difficult to explain what I was teaching or even what to do. I was bordering on helplessness, but I'm determined to stick with it. These kids have no one and at least my presence can help a little bit.
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