Not much to report today. Babai ended up having something else he had to do, so he couldn't take us to the monkey temple. I opted out of Sealdah this morning, in favor of sleeping in. When Trina got home and told me we weren't going to the temple, we both went back to sleep for awhile. Then we got up, had lunch, and took a bicycle rickshaw to the ATM. When we got back, the kids arrived for their computer and reading class, but we couldn't get the computer to turn on. So they just read books aloud and we did a few puzzles. One boy who is in both the advanced math and english classes can't really read. He was struggling alot, and I realized that he doesn't know most letters, and he often doesn't know their sounds. He thinks a "W" makes a "d" sound because of the way your pronounce the letter. He can speak pretty well though.
After that, we went to the school for craft day. One of the boys showed everyone how to make paper frogs and then we played duck, duck, goose.
Tonight another volunteer arrives from Australia. Her name is Jennifer. I don't know how old she is, but I do know she'll be here for a month. I'm excited. The more the merrier.
Don't really have plans for tomorrow yet.
~maura