Saturday, May 22, 2010

week 1 @ TFI....

Long time no see...lol!! im sorry for not keeping in touch! It feels like its been months since i saw you all last....the week went by so fast that i had no time to understand anythn....my day starts at 7 am everyday and ends arnd 1am....we start with breakfast every morning and end with dumb charades....thts the only fun time we hv in the whole day cos we have back to back training sessions...im learning to make lesson plans, class culture, managing students....n a lot more....whoever told me its going to be a break from the corporate world...believe me its more tough! I have deliverables to submit everyday which includes lesson plans, time tables, worksheets,etc. And it drains me mentally as well as physically and at times emotionally!


The first 2 days were crazy....we were taken to a BLP (below poverty line) community and had to interact with kids....i was extremely surprised to see some of the kids talking in English fluently....i went to the houses of some of them...believe me WE ARE EXTREMELY LUCKY to have all we want!!!! Day 2 we were left on the streets to clean up an area and create an art structure out of it...another team was asked to earn money without using their hands and legs!!! You wont believe they earned Rs.2000 by singing!! The idea of doing all this was to sensitise us and inculcate values. The last 3 days i have had an overload of information. So wont bore u with all tht.

If nothn else atleast i have learnt how to wash clothes on my own! The cafeteria food sucks and if ur late u miss out on it!! We’re staying at the I2IT campus in Hinjewadi, which is far from the city and we don’t have access to anythn....thankfully we got an early off today so i found time to write this mail. I still don’t have a pune no. So plz kp in touch thru my delhi no. I don’t find time at times to take calls or reply immediately so apologising in advance.