I arrived in Bombay 3 days ago (it feels like I've been here much longer then 3 days... in a good way!). The flights where longish relatively uneventful. My flight leaving Vancouver was delayed an hour, but it gave me time to catch up on some emails and phone calls (my sister said she always knows when I'm in an airport because that's when I call her! ha). In London met up with a couple friends who where also traveling to India (they are in Goa) and we happened to be on the same flight to Bombay!
Arriving in Mumbai, I was met at the airport by an excited Josh and some good humid heat! It actually hasn't been too bad heat wise here, and actually cool at night (not too bad = 30ish degrees during the day).
The last couple days I have working on getting over jet lag, which hasn't been too bad except it doesn't seem to matter what time I go to bed, I wake up at 6am (and wake up a couple times in between). Last night we were all up until 1am visiting, so I actually slept until 6:06! Ha.
It's great to be back at the school! I have spent the last couple days working on creating checklists and forms for Vikas to use to hopefully make his job a little bit easier for him. Apparently Vikas is absolutely terrified of me after last year! Haha.... I don't think I've ever had someone scared of me before! So, I decided for this past few days just to get myself organized and do the relatively easy things (making forms etc), so next week Vikas will be trembling! Funny story, yesterday I was working on forms and giving them to Vikas and going over them with him, telling him how they are going to be used and how he needs to organize things ie. where to put them so he actually uses them. One of the other male teachers, was sitting in the same corner of the offices as us, so at the end of the day, he sits down on the chair I was in and says to me "I'm you and you are Vikas" and proceeded with "Vikas, do this, Vikas read this, Vikas put this here, Vikas fill up my water bottle!" Tania as well has been greatly enjoying watching the Juniper/Vikas interaction!
I have also been spending time every afternoon working with Kokila to do her exercises. After her burns last year she refused to do her physio, so her skin grafts all contractured and now she can barely move her head/neck and has very little range of motion in her arms. The first day she really didn't want to do the exercises, but with a bit of pushing she did them. We do them upstairs in the school (her choice), so nobody else is around, just her and I and sometimes Parvarti (one of the little girls she babysits) comes and sits with us. Yesterday afternoon she came into the office and said "no exercises today Didi", then came over to me and whispered "exercises now Didi, upstairs right now!" So she is doing, them and even reminded me of one when I forgot, so I think it's more that she has been so stubborn about not doing them that she needs to keep pretending!
Tomorrow one of the other volunteers and I are jumping on a 12 hour train ride to Goa for a couple days (next week is Diwali so we have most of next week off). So it will be nice to relax before the hard work starts next week!!
Arriving in Mumbai, I was met at the airport by an excited Josh and some good humid heat! It actually hasn't been too bad heat wise here, and actually cool at night (not too bad = 30ish degrees during the day).
The last couple days I have working on getting over jet lag, which hasn't been too bad except it doesn't seem to matter what time I go to bed, I wake up at 6am (and wake up a couple times in between). Last night we were all up until 1am visiting, so I actually slept until 6:06! Ha.
It's great to be back at the school! I have spent the last couple days working on creating checklists and forms for Vikas to use to hopefully make his job a little bit easier for him. Apparently Vikas is absolutely terrified of me after last year! Haha.... I don't think I've ever had someone scared of me before! So, I decided for this past few days just to get myself organized and do the relatively easy things (making forms etc), so next week Vikas will be trembling! Funny story, yesterday I was working on forms and giving them to Vikas and going over them with him, telling him how they are going to be used and how he needs to organize things ie. where to put them so he actually uses them. One of the other male teachers, was sitting in the same corner of the offices as us, so at the end of the day, he sits down on the chair I was in and says to me "I'm you and you are Vikas" and proceeded with "Vikas, do this, Vikas read this, Vikas put this here, Vikas fill up my water bottle!" Tania as well has been greatly enjoying watching the Juniper/Vikas interaction!
I have also been spending time every afternoon working with Kokila to do her exercises. After her burns last year she refused to do her physio, so her skin grafts all contractured and now she can barely move her head/neck and has very little range of motion in her arms. The first day she really didn't want to do the exercises, but with a bit of pushing she did them. We do them upstairs in the school (her choice), so nobody else is around, just her and I and sometimes Parvarti (one of the little girls she babysits) comes and sits with us. Yesterday afternoon she came into the office and said "no exercises today Didi", then came over to me and whispered "exercises now Didi, upstairs right now!" So she is doing, them and even reminded me of one when I forgot, so I think it's more that she has been so stubborn about not doing them that she needs to keep pretending!
Tomorrow one of the other volunteers and I are jumping on a 12 hour train ride to Goa for a couple days (next week is Diwali so we have most of next week off). So it will be nice to relax before the hard work starts next week!!
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