Today at school, I started long division with the intermediate kids. Prativa had done it before, but the extra practice won't hurt. Its not like with the older kids when they're way beyond what we're doing. Jayanto had either never done it, or done very little. He's a really bright kid, so he was catching on, but it was difficult for me to get him to work a whole problem because Prativa was so eager to answer. She really doesn't like math very much, but today she kept saying "Auntie, today math I like!" I told her math likes her today too, but she didn't understand what I meant.
With the advanced kids, I started doing things with perimeter, but they were so bored because they learned it so long ago. I let them do random math problems on the board, and just kinda play around until school was over. Next week I'll have something more challenging figured out for them.
Ellenoor, Trina and I went to the Penguine Inn for lunch. It was quite yummy.
Sealdah was incredibly empty today. Usually when I say that, I mean kids don't show up for food, but today there were actually fewer people in general at the station. Enough kids did come for food that we used it all, but it wasn't the usual mad rush. A lady came with a baby that she told us is one month and 11 days old. Like most babies I see at the station, she was teeny. I watched for a couple minutes and she was completely still. I was honstly beginning to doubt whether she was actually alive when she moved. She looked so sickly, I don't think she'll survive. Her little lips were all dry...
Some of the teenage boys that come are often high on something. Today they were more irritating than usual, probably because Babai wasn't with us. Females just aren't respected and listened to the way men are; we have no authority. The boys would try to take things out of our supply bag, and they were constantly in our faces, making it really difficult to distribute food to the other kids.

It wasn't a bad day, though.

~m