Vanakkam everyone!
Today it's me posting for the first time - Alicia, the new Volunteer ("Sister Alicia" as the children call me). I arrived last week and I will stay in the project for nine months (til June 2014).
Everything is very new for me, so many expressions and new things to learn!
I am very grateful to be here and slowly I manage to adapt to India's everyday life.
The children, who were rather excited about me arrival, gave me a very heartly welcome with songs, a dance, prayers and a self-made necklace. I think I have never been welcomed in such a touching way in my whole life. I was also very happy to finally meet and in the last week get to know them better each day.
Now I start actually teaching, inventing games, learning Tamil from the children and telling Bible stories to them. I am so happy to be here and that everything is going so well that it makes me sad to think of leaving next year already. I feel like I am a part of the family, because everybody treats me so nicely.
Each new day, when I open my eyes to this colourful, exciting, ancient new world full of birds songs, I thank the Lord for having sent me here and ask him to give me wisdom and strength to be a helping hand and make a difference in the children's lives.
See you next time!
Poitu varan.
Alicia
Today it's me posting for the first time - Alicia, the new Volunteer ("Sister Alicia" as the children call me). I arrived last week and I will stay in the project for nine months (til June 2014).
Everything is very new for me, so many expressions and new things to learn!
I am very grateful to be here and slowly I manage to adapt to India's everyday life.
The children, who were rather excited about me arrival, gave me a very heartly welcome with songs, a dance, prayers and a self-made necklace. I think I have never been welcomed in such a touching way in my whole life. I was also very happy to finally meet and in the last week get to know them better each day.
Now I start actually teaching, inventing games, learning Tamil from the children and telling Bible stories to them. I am so happy to be here and that everything is going so well that it makes me sad to think of leaving next year already. I feel like I am a part of the family, because everybody treats me so nicely.
Each new day, when I open my eyes to this colourful, exciting, ancient new world full of birds songs, I thank the Lord for having sent me here and ask him to give me wisdom and strength to be a helping hand and make a difference in the children's lives.
See you next time!
Poitu varan.
Alicia
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