rainy morning notes
Monday, February 8, 2010 at 10:27PM It's raining here today and there hasn't been school for three days because of a national teacher's strike. I just started writing this and there's already been about 20 bursts through my door. The children are extra rambunctious this morning. I swear some days they remind me of the lost boys from Peter Pan living in a big tree house. I feel like Wendy. Right now they are playing bananagrams, and computer games, and doing art.
Marissa taught some of the older children the cutest dance routine and they performed last night at satsung in front of everyone. I'll try to get it on tape. I can't wait to show it to them when they're in their twenties. Speaking of them getting older, they definitely are. There's a new tween attitude vibe in this house among the girls all of a sudden that we've all been noticing. I'm 23 and I don't even feel like I'm done going through puberty yet. I'm definitely not ready for them to start. And they've picked up the "rolling your eyes when you're annoyed" mannerism from me. I have to stop doing that!
I had a meeting with the Minister of Education yesterday. In an effort to make Surkhet schools more sustainable the government has just created a rule that when you open a new school you can only open one year/grade at a time. So for 24 hours I had this horrible feeling that our school would only be able to open this year through the first grade and not to any of my students in older grades of which there are so many. I went and sat with two of the ministers and explained our situation to them. I feel like I have meetings with ministers and government officials down to an art these days. You have to be sweet but firm at the same time. They have to like you and listen to what you have to say. Our meeting went well and they have decided to grant us full primary registration which means we can open this year K-5. By next year we will have our K-8 registration. With the new laws set this month, they also decided to shift the pre-primary registration to a different municipality so we had to submit a whole additional set of documents and signatures and deposits to another office for approval as well yesterday. It's been a roller coaster ride for sure.
Anyway, that's all the news here. I heard about the blizzard that hit the east coast from my friend Michael this morning, so I thought I'd send this sunny photo your way! I love Nisha in that straw hat.
Love from all of us at Kopila.
Little Nisha in Bardia National Park








