Monday, 29 March 2010
When the class finished their syllabus and I ran out of monkey tricks to keep them entertained. I did try and teach them to juggle but it got a bit chaotic with hindsight, it was not the best idea. A better idea was to get them to teach me everyday nepali phrases. It was quite good in the end I managed to get them into groups and acted different scenes such as shopping for dairy products.
It was an opportunity to add to the three words in my nepali vocabulary. ‘Nameste’, ‘Hoina’, and ‘Puyo’. So I learnt how to buy milk from a shop.
‘Dai, Malai Dude Chihiyo!’ = Dude, I want to buy some milk. Jagada Nagara (stop fighting) and a few other classroom words. To be honest though, I thought I could learn more but their english was too good hence I did not really need to learn.
We went on couple of field trips to the local villages which were great! Bungamati and Khokana were traditional Newari villages. It was nice to see all the kids were very local and the whole community was very polite and well mannered.
Adventures of Delboy 