Small wonders and their Cherishable Notorious acts

I was watching the movie "Salam Namaste" when I saw Saif Ali Khan saying...oooooooops..I hate kids and I was so irritated at that thought of his towards kids.... But did not know the same would some times slip in to our mind as well when kids get naughtier and naughtier, as well when they become more inquisitive........

Yes....surprisingly that thought crossed even my mind when my neighbors kids getting on top of my head with several questions...I questioned myself how could I think so.... Sometimes it is very irritating for us to listen to the queries of small wonders but to tell the truth even though we get irritated at the point time when they question us we really admire/have fun with their questions at a later point in time.. So was the case with me.......

I was very tired and kinda feeling low when day when the kids living in my compound barged into my house and started with their questions... All of a sudden I started having fun with them and told they were my mini friends and gave them juice/chips, and had a small party with them..... That's it... I became a part of their gang.. and they always I played with them ;-).. They started looking at me at their standard meaning...I was also considered as a kid of their age to play around with them....

That became little tough for me.... whenever these kids here my voice or see when I am entering my house they immediately rush along with me into my house and start.....That goes on and on.... Answering them I just got to feel how I used to pester my parents with similar questions....

If you think of them now you really feel like laughing and sometimes little embarrassing too....

Not only this incident..but another incident when I went to teach some kids in a tent school I got to watch their notorious activities...innocent cute little answers... behaviors etc.....

One of the kids was asked to write 12 on board and the little kid wrote 21...when asked to read 94 , the small wonder read it as 49..... I was very poor at Maths, and the way I used to mutiply when asked to divide, getting repeatedly taught by my mom was what came into my mind at that point of time...

and then I tried to teach a small boy how to write Spell/write Dog...and when I tried to do so...The Boy replied saying I don't know..I replied..no problem..I told him to write D O G and then asked him to say DOG but he said D-O-G....

I said that's fine. Now say DOG, spell it and write it again.... But the reply was D-O-G and not DOG..... If I say D-O-G the boy writes but when I say DOG together he just looks at me and keeps wondering ... D-O-G is D-O-G and not DOG ;-( ...I tried my best... it was D-O-G..Could not get the boy say DOG together.... Kids are so innocent..... And always fun...

Cheers,
Akshatha

Motivation

I saw a small video on Motivation this morning..It was s small video but the message was very clear and nice.... It goes over a small story as follows:

There lived a lamb beautifully coated with fur all around its body on a hilly mountain.It used to dance dance and show off and feel extremely happy whenever it used to see its beautiful mirror image in the water. The neighbors living around the small fishes in the pond, snakes around used to enjoy its dance and join the dance. Life was very beautiful.

One day a truck comes to their place. The man out of the truck hauls away the lamb and shaves out all the fur and drops him back bare and naked in its place when all his neighbors start laughing and criticizing him on his new looks.

It starts raining and when the lamb sees its bare image in the rainy water, it gets broken down and stops dancing feels very depressed for having lost its beauty and just slides calmly near a rock. Stops dancing and feels very low.

Then up and around the slope came a Jackal caused a pause and checked out the gloomy lamb and asked . Hey dude! why are yo so sad?

And the lamb replied in a very low voice... Hey I used to be so handsome with my shiny fur around and I used to show them off with my beautiful dance. But one day a man came and dumped me naked like this...and all my friends started started laughing at me and they I look ridiculous funny and pink.....

The Jackal replied...so what if you are pink...you still have a kick...pink or purple does not matter.....Sometimes you are up and sometimes you are down.....When you are down..just look around..you have a body, you have long legs...you have your head in place and your body is complete....

So just tap you leg down and bounce around...bound and rebound up the hill and you can reach the heights and sometimes even reach great heights and near the sky if you give it a try.....

The lamb realizes this..gives this a try, trembles once or twice and then finally just bounds up and up around the hill..all the neighbors join the dance and the lamb is happy again. The days go by ...the man as usual dumps back the lamb naked..but it does not matter..the lamb learns to live with it...bound and rebounds and is stays happy with its friends all around....

That was very touching video.... I felt the same with my case...When I was upset and feeling low like the lamb..my friend crossed me as the jackal..and motivated the same way as we saw here.....

Sharing a similar short message here:

"Never worry for the delay in success compared to others because construction of a "Pyramid" takes more time than the ordinary building"

So Never get depressed...there are lot of opportunities around..Just open your eyes..look around..give it a try and you can reach great heights........

That's all for today... I dedicate this to my friend ;-)

Akshatha

Tent Schools

So...Back after few busy days...I feel so glad.... All these days over my busy times, one matter used to keep clinging around my mind since the time I visited a TENT school in Bangalore, near the airport road... What is this TENT school? The same question popped up even to me when I heard about this for the first time from my friend.....

My dad always wished that I became a doctor and served the poor free of cost. But that never happened. Still my dad used to serve the needy as much as possible from his side. I always wished to be like my dad but never got into action really to do it........

1 month back when I was having a small chat with my friend I came to know about these tent schools and felt it's the right time to splurge in some action.... With my initial understanding that TENT Schools were something like orphanage I decided to donate something from my side. But I was always waiting for my dad's consent here.... I began to get into deeper chat with my friend regarding the same and was very particular in extending my support only after understanding if the organization/school was really lacking support.....
So thinking more about it and after discussing with my Dad..I contributed some amount to my friend... My Friend who was solely working for this bought a Book Rack for the TENT school and asked if I could join him while he hands it over.... I was elated and immediately joined him over a weekend.......

That was the day! I was so happy for really waking up early on a Saturday morning and visiting that school..... That was the first time I heard about TENT school from my friend....It took an hour for us to reach the school and I had a very nice chat with my friend when I came to know more about the TENT Schools.. So here I go with my understanding about the same.....

TENT Schools aim at supporting the children spread/brought up in Slums, mostly for the kids of the laborers involved in construction works. What happens here is the laborers keep shifting their place wherever they get to involve in building construction contracts that spread for a span of minimum 1 or 2 years. During that period they live in a small slum nearby the workplace. Once the construction gets over they shift to different place..In this way they do not have a consistent place to live and consequence the children are not assured of getting literate. What ever they earn is just enough to pass their daily living.... consequence of being illiterate the children will be ignored in the society, cheated by some frauds, their living becomes difficult....

Therefore the concept of TENT Schools surrounds around educating the slum kids to whatever extent possible with the limited period of time. So that at least the kids know how to read and write and thus can escape from ignorance, getting cheated/fooled.

Not only education, Tent schools also try to support with food/shelter based on the amount of support they get from the society..... All these are done free of cost...

This sounded very good to me and when I visited the school I was shocked to hear that the land for the new school was donated by a great person..I do not remember the name....

But the part of pity here is...due to less support there are just one or 2 teachers to manage a set of 30 to 50 kids...and due to lack of infrastructural support, few kids although eligible for higher studies still sit in a single class and read the same thing again and again..........

I was moved very much when I saw kid running towards my friend calling anna...with a very cute smile on its face...the single teacher there conveyed her thanks to me...and I got back to my office after that......

Red india foundation is one such support for TENT schools....and till date it has organized free dental camps, book donation camps etc for the slum kids....

I felt so good visiting that school and feel very responsible to support such kids.... We all party lot with our friends, I guess once in a while during our free time we can even definitely try to involve in such support activities.......

More information about Red India can be found here:
http://www.readindiafoundation.org/

If some way this post has instilled some thought in the mind of the readers to take out some time and involve themselves in such social activities, I feel very happy and satisfied here.

Cheers,
Akshatha