Prison Babies: 6th Day (Prison)

Prison Babies: Visit to the Prison

This is our second visit to the prison.  The weather wasnt very good today, dark clouds and drizzling in the beginning. Yet, we conquered all the interferances  and enjoyed our time with the kids.  We started of with drawing (as usual)  but then this time, we had clay which the kids really enjoyed playing with. We made animals out of play-dohs. 

Even though it was drizzling a bit, we took the kids out in their playground to play. We were on the see-saw. It was fun really and one of the boys (i forgot the name :( ) was really enjoying it.  There were others as well who were busy in coloring :P but many  of the kids came outside to play with us. If we have acitivities which involve rides a lot, i am sure that the kids will enjoy more.  Wellwe will probably discuss about this more next time.

Prison Babies: 5th Day.

Prison Babies: In School.

Today the children from the Prison came to our school. The visit took place after 2 weeks, so nothing really was planned except that we would play with the children in the primary playground. Though, i found today much more interesting than the other days as we actually had some action instead of drawing.  We were playing with the little kids which was quite refreshing and even they enjoyed it.  There were the same faces which was good.  Today,  i was accompanying Kashidu and it was very enjoyable and i am sure that she was enjoying it as well. The problem is that i STILL dont remember all the names! Argh, i must remember their names soon :P

Next time for Prison Babies, we might go to the Prison, so i am looking forward to it, if we go.

UN Day Dance Performance.

UN Day Performance: Creativity.

Every year in UN Day, India always does a performance. This time, like last year we did one as well. But the different thing about this year was that we added fashion show into it and then a dance performance.

The song we used was 'Twist Remix' from Love Aaj Kal, an Indian movie. Me, Prashant and Ashish choreographed our dance this time as well. Good thing was that we were a lot more focussed than last year. We used an indian-western song which meant that we had more enhanced moves, especially western moves in our dance. The good thing is that this time, Prashant had used some of the new and cool steps :P which really made the audience interested in our performance more. There were some steps which i was physically in-capable of doing, but SOMEHOW i learnt them and did it.

There were 12 people in our dance, so naturally the stage was crowded. Yet, the whole perfomance went good. Many people came up to us and told us that it was good. 

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Prison Babies: Going to the Prison.

Prison Babies.

Today we went to the prison near Borella. The whole purpose for us going to the prison was to see that how the children were living over there and to go to a new environment and make the children happy by going to where they live. I didnt really expect the trip to be that much fun, infact, i enjoyed it a lot.

The first thing we saw when we entered in the children's teaching/playground section was that there were little girls performing sri lankan dance. We then went to the their classroom and gave them pages and colors so that they can draw. Unfortunately, the little kids had to do draw again this time. Later on, when we saw that the kids were getting bored, we took them out of the classroom to their playground and played with the kids. It was fun playing with them. We had small rides and i am sure that the kids were enjoying as i hardly saw anyone of them cry. We had some familiar faces which really helped us as the children were now used to us and opened up a lot in front of us. I now know only two names of the kids: Kashidu and Harshini. Due to the lack of knowing Singhalese, it was hard for us to understand what they were saying, but we had some sri lankan students with us like Upandha who told us what the kids wanted which REALLY helped us. I have a fealing that i was playing and acting properly in front of the kids and really wanted to continue playing with them. Overall it was a nice experience, the bad thing was that we werent allowed to take in cameras so i couldnt take photos :( though next time, they are coming in school and will take photos then.

Looking forward to the plannings for the next lesson. I being one of the leaders of my group have to think of stuff we can do with the kids and the students in my group have thought of lots of ideas, we will surely put them into action.