Tuesday, October 10, 2006
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garbage experiences
I travel on the train from Agra to Delhi. I just got my incredibly delicious Indian Take Away enjoyed dinner and left behind: Waste.
Where to put it? My eyes peer through the car, but nirgenwo is a trash can discover. And my response to the space between the cars is unsuccessful.
When I return to my seat, I see my Indian fellow passengers with that typical mix of Indian helpfulness and sensationalism. I try to describe my problem. A family man points out the window. I am white, he has shown some time ago his little son how to properly throw garbage from the train window, but that is not determined but the only solution. I remember the condition of the embankments and begin to doubt me. I try to imagine seriously mentally waste my equal to throw out the window. It feels terrible.
I answer half jokingly, half seriously: "I just can not do this, it's a cultural thing. I am from Germany shake. "Indians and I are laughing. Meanwhile, the scene
has also attracted the conductor. I ask him what to do with my garbage. He also points out the window. I ask him with a presumably to Verweiflung bordering expression on the face, if not somewhere on this train a trash can. His face gets a paternal train: this poor foreigner should be helped to schlieβlich he is here the authority figure. He takes me to his Schaffnerkabuff. I would be looking for the longed- Dustbin. But there is none. But I can then throw the garbage in the corner on the floor. Really? It is meant seriously. I throw the garbage in the corner.
I have pangs of conscience that is now my garbage in the area of the conductor. Later me comes a comforting thought: He's probably the rubbish, as soon as I was no longer in the area, gets thrown out the window.
I am glad that is big respect for the cultural idiosyncrasies and oddities of different people in India so and I will be very warm feeling.
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Yes, I live yet! I have the blog not only long updated since the picture upload has worked in recent times not right and I only get tired of blogging and had me then, as 75% of Indian travelers the revenge of the Mughals has caught, and my only significant activity was for three days the race of my bed to the toilet.
was pretty right after my arrival I had a flu infection by following bronchitis and then a week of itchy red rash all over my body, which was probably triggered by the heat and extreme humidity, and I actually have all the time a dry cough, finally, I am yes here in one of the cities with the highest air pollution.
Somehow, the European body does not really prepared to be on the India and reacts well with a kind of shock that paralyzes the immune system and for many Europeans is the mental reaction is very similar.
What is really fascinating, however, that so many Europeans hanker after India, although we must honestly admit that we are not really created just for that corner of the world.
Saturday, September 30, 2006
Wednesday, September 27, 2006
Exercise For Carinatum
The first school year
For some of these children is the first school year at the Hope Project something very special because it the very first ever in their family who ever visit a school. The teacher Mrs. Batra reported that they always encouraged the children to pass their knowledge on to their family. Indeed, some of her students are already doing their own fathers taught the basics of writing, beginning with its own named.
course it is a particular challenge, these children motivate even go to school. But I think that precisely this challenge leads to the great atmosphere and lively teaching style here.
Monday, September 25, 2006
Scary And Disturbing Images
sirens in Delhi
I wake from sleep. The sirens wail in Delhi. I look at the clock, the time is 3:19. Is this a false alarm or a Pakistani first strike?
Take it easy, I tell myself, this is probably just the wake-up call for Muslims in Delhi, for the month of fasting starts today Ramadan. eat from sunrise to sunset and do not drink adult Muslims, but there is an evening groβes dinner with the family. The atmosphere just with us in the district will probably be quite fascinating. I'm curious, even if I'm going back tomorrow brought by sirens from sleep.
Friday, September 22, 2006
Thursday, September 21, 2006
Wednesday, September 20, 2006
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Butterflies
Last night I had first met with the Butterflies. The children are young people living on the streets during the day but at night in the large classroom in the basement of the Hope Project to find a safe place to sleep, having no relatives have more that can take care of them or they are running away from home.
In her room were installed lockers, so they next day when the space is used for the school, where their few belongings can be stored. They can also eat dinner there, and shower. It's the whole night, two night guards present (one of whom is also my Hindi teacher), one of them at the entrance, scans the children on arrival, so that no weapons or drugs can get into their space and one that in them room to sleep there, contact for the children to be and to be able to settle disputes. Each of the
perhaps even on the road was once homeless for some time, can understand certain that three of the main needs are a safe place to sleep, a chance to wash, a meal and a safe place for his belongings.
course I had some concerns, what should I do actually, when I meet the Butterflies, because of course no one speaks of them only rudimentary English, and I've also through my civilian time in the nursery probably little useful experience with children with a such social background won. Fortunately, there is an international communications media: games. I was told that the Kharam board game would be very popular with the kids and I wanted to show me the game.
When I came into the room, it had the 15 Butterflies have been welcoming, some even slept on mats on the floor already (this is normal in India), the others had to hingefläzt front of the TV, the older kids took my presence only briefly noted and after I had said in broken Hindi, I was happy to take learn Kharam Board, they soon turned back to the Indian soap opera, probably the most globally popular teenager attitude: "I'm too tough and cool for Kinderspielchen such, I look far better now. " The younger Butterflies, however, were enthusiastic, however, and there were first fighting for the three players places. The rules they could explain to me quickly with little English and lots of Show. Kharam board can be explained best as a minimal version of billiards, you play it on a small wooden board with four holes in the corners, instead of balls used small wooden disks and instead Billiardstöcken Snip special techniques with the fingers. Is there a way to really simple means really much to have fun. The 8 - year-old play so much better than me, but yes I will have time to learn.
What I just noticed you play again and again, the explosion of aggression with which the Children react when they feel unfairly treated. The suspicion of cheating or if someone wants to play, but just can not enough, and you start a really evil looking tussle. Fortunately, children usually take the other quickly and try the brawlers "no fight" - and call each other apart Wegzerren forward and already less than a minute after a really nasty squabbling, the two fighting cocks play again peacefully.
I have a feeling that the kids have a good sense of fairness. They have always worked for me, for example, if someone tried to take advantage of my lack of knowledge of the rules, to me they are not aggressive. Presumably, this explosive Agressionsausbrüche are a necessity when you live on the streets and defend his food and other needs Lebensbotwendigkeiten. Also, most of the children and young people as quickly and explosively when laughing. The night watchman in the room told me the really bad incidents rarely are, and assured me that his job is actually not as difficult as it appears at first glance, because the kids were here as satisfied as rare in her life and would therefore usually in deep, fernsehberieselter, ready to play or just in need of sleep mood.
supplement: 3 nights later ... (The I will photograph of this evening)
meantime I found thanks to Bollywood dance music and an access to Toughen and cool under the Butterflies, I think, "If you can not dance well, dance wildly!" now use it as a life motto.
Saturday, September 16, 2006
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meeting
I drive an auto rickshaw in the heavy traffic on a four-lane main street in Delhi. We stopped at a traffic light. Middle of the road someone is sitting on the median strip. An old man with stumps instead of legs. He sees that I see him. Our eyes meet. He crawls into the street, turns green in the middle between the two cars right next to mir.Die traffic lights, drivers on the gas. The old man may be just about back to save the central reservation.
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One of my tasks at the Hope Project is helping with the photographic documentation. You can all see the fruits of my first mission: Capture the excitement in Faruzimas Science Classroom ".
I thought this would be no easy job, but after I had shadowed a morning when the teacher Faruzina, it seemed not so difficult. It was so much curiosity, fascination and joy of argument in the room that I almost just had to press the shutter button.
The Hope Project is a school with 600 pupils, it has set itself the task to allow the children to attend school, remain excluded from the public school system. Community Workers make their way into the homes to convince parents to send their children to school with them and try to overcome the social and organizational barriers that prevent this normally. Some of these reasons include financial problems, lack of papers, concentration problems caused by malnutrition, advanced age, lack of language skills, or simply that they are female and therefore education is not relevant for them and they reach a certain age anyway better move should only be placed in spatial and social boundaries. The aim of the school is to train these children so much that they can be integrated into the secondary state school system. There is also a night school for working children, special support classes for children in the public school system and vocational qualifier measures, such as teaching computer skills.
This school is in many respects quite extraordinary, if you still have further interest, I can you the blog of Pritha Ghosh, recommend the Educational Advisor to the Hope Project, there you will find even more photos ( http://curriculumathope.blogspot.com/ ). Pritha Ghosh is an energetic whirlwind and has taken more than two hours (she was hoarse), I explain the peculiarities of gesture-rich pedagogical approach. I was pretty excited to see the whole thing in practice to see.
My photos show especially the fruits of the "inquiry-based education." In Faruzima's class focused on the adaptation of organisms to their environment and take the knowledge to mediate in the chalk and talk, they would with a question like: "Why do the plants look really different in the desert than in the jungle?" and start the students then begin their own Develop theories why this might be so. You can ask the teacher holes in the stomach and so eventually develop their own understanding of the learning material. While I understand almost no Hindi, it is really fun to attend classes. It's just so much of in the air, which makes science really fascinating: dare wonder, curiosity to ask themselves questions, to share knowledge, gain new knowledge and the joy of it to understand things. In addition, I have to Faruzima's gesture somehow always think of Socrates.
Faruzima has tried to convince me with my background neuropsychological and maybe we will bring in one of the higher grades of plaster molds really brains and draw in the main sensory and motor areas ...
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First impressions
As I step off the plane in Delhi hits me in hot and humid air counter. The runway of the airport at night populated with real crowds, many more people working here than at a European airport. Or are sleeping. Really on the luggage transport trucks or semi-open barracks on the runway sleep crowded workers.