Our Final Farewells

It was officially our last day at PRS. Because of that, Montana decided to wear her sari to school. Sheeba put it on that morning. She got several comments on it at school from both kids and teachers. They were probably shocked to see a white person wearing a sari. Montana almost tripped over herself a few times trying to go up and down the stairs. She finally figured out that to go upstairs, she should pull the bottom of the sari up and to go down kick the bottom up before taking the step. How do teachers do this everyday!!!!!!

We did the normal routine of Simon says, Charades, hangman, songs, etc. This time however, 1/3 of the class time was spent showing the video of the classes singing songs (see yesterdays post to watch the video). The kids loved seeing themselves and even when it wasn't their class dancing, they were getting into the song by shaking their head, turning in circles and jumping up and down. The teachers also enjoyed watching the video. Standard 3 was crazy. We had kids pushing and shoving to watch the videos, but not only that. It was a girls birthday today and she was handing out candy, so kids were pushing and shoving for that too. Plus the teacher left when we got there.

During our 10 minute break we went to the front office/computer room to rest. A worker, who didn't speak any English gave us something we didn't know what it was. There was a shrine right next to us, so we didn't know whether it was for the shrine or what. We kept asking if we were suppose to eat it, but she just did the Indian head wag. We decided to eat it anyways. Lets hope we didn't eat anything sacred.

After the classes, Esther, the school principal, wanted to see us. She gave us a thank you letter saying how much of a help we were and then took a picture of us for herself. Brother Stephen picked us up from PRS and took us back to the guest house.

We were surprised to see banana leaves sitting on the table. It was another truly Indian style lunch. As we sat on the couch waiting for the food Roshan served us appetizers of banana chips and spicy cauliflower. We were served a typical Indian lunch, which we both ate all of it with just our fingers. The meal ended with an American style dessert. Can you guess what it was?

The afternoon, before SEAM, was, once again spent packing as much as we could and getting what we could get done on pictures and journals.

At SEAM, instead of doing crafts, the girls invited us to play a game of compass. Compass was pretty much an Indian version of pool. There was a board with a compass on it, obviously, then there was one big chip, and several smaller ones colored black and white, then one purple one. There were four sides and two teams. The object was to get all of your color (black or white) into one of the four holes in the corners. The last one of your chip is suppose to go in the hole with the purple one otherwise the other team wins.





Since it was Montana and LuRues last day, the SEAM boys did a dance for us and we gave out candy to all the kids. The bindi man followed us home again and joined us with a Domino pizza. Since he is studying software, Sheeba wanted us to show the India part of the detective video to him. Never did we ever dream someone we hardly met would be watching our terrible acting skills.

 Tomorrow, we get to wake up at 2am to catch a 6am flight. Yay, early mornings! Might as well just stay up all night!