Remember Remember the Sixth of November??

Good Evening!

Firstly I hear that the weather in England isn't so great. I wouldn't like you to think that I was sitting here in totally amazing weather. No, that's right... the weather isn't perfect here. Today- there was a cloud. (for at least five minutes anyway...).

It feels like this weeks been quite short. Monday was a teaching-free day due to a Public Holiday for a Sikh Guru and today was teach-free to do the first part of our evaluation and lesson plans etc. Apart from that, it's been a really productive week at work (despite illness and losing team members to another school for part of the week). My class are now all fully able to recognise colours (although yellow sometimes becomes blue...) and one girl can even spell black! Progress! :p

As for the toilet building project... the pit is now around 5ft deep and so it's fun getting in and out. The lady whom we're digging for made us some pretty delicious Indian cake stuff on Thursday (which is really kind considering she had to feed her family and herself for less than 600 Rs / 7.50 a month!). I'd heard about Indian hospitality before I came here, but I never knew it would be this good! You can walk down the street and be offered back to somebody's house for tea and whenever you visit somebody you can be sure to leave refreshed. I really like this about India, although I'm pretty sure if I started inviting randomers for tea back home in England I'd gtet some strange looks!

Last night was a Bonfire Night with a difference. Rather than doning the waterproofs and attending a windy, cold, very busy, council run, public firework display (haha...) we set off the leftovers of our Diwali Fireworks. I'm pretty sure these sort of fireworks wouldn't even be allowed in England on the grounds of health and safety but in trusty old India there's no such concept! Here, if a firework explodes in your hand, it's not due to there being a large quantity of explosive inside, or a lack of taper. It's because you were stupid enough to allow it to explode in your hand.

Nothing much else to report. The other boy's room had a monkey attack today, the sun's still shining and I'm off on an adventure this weekend... but that's all I can say about that (Mum will have a heart attack.,. hahaha). I'll report back on it next week sometime... if I'm alive!

Love,

Callum <><