K4: arts and crafts
This week’s edition (Part II): successful epic art project, frozen juice, a roomful of mildly befuddled spectators, and other adventures
Month: May 2012
K3: “Konjam porunga!”
In this week’s edition (Part I) I learn to ask for people’s names when requesting things on the phone, how organised sports can quite quickly become disorganised, that 10-year-olds are not as quick at arts and crafts as I am (who knew?) and how to say the days of the week in Tamil.
K2: i bring a friend
Second theatre workshop with the wonderful youngsters at Kakkaiyankulam. Esh joined me in this week’s edition, and we took in the sights and deilghts of Vavuniya on a Sunday (we soon learned this is the quietest day of the week!). I know the children will be bitterly disappointed not to see her next Monday, though.
youthful reflections
Exercise 1 consisted, quite simply, of asking children to relate an incident they felt happy/angry/sad/afraid/lonely/disappointed/etc. Here is a small sampling of their responses, the good, the bad, and the just…
K1: an exciting start!
Despite tussles with the PTF, as well as inevitable bureaucracy and procrastination, this project is finally getting off the ground! Pretty much a perfect pilot workshop, with the nicest 9-11 year old children I could ask for.