Day Four and Five

We have had a couple of days of getting lost - seeing the other side of Kolkata and beginning to teach! We have also experienced amazing contrasts.  Yesterday we spent the day at Rajahut - the site of the new school and had a marvellous picnic; not picnic in the same way as we picnic at home - but with huge gas hobs and curry and rice cooked under a large awning!  Sitting cross legged on the floor and eating with our hands is geting second nature to us now.

We are so lucky to have such wonderful hosts in Minni and Kokon.  They have taken us for drinks and dinner at the Calcutta Club and introduced us to their lovely friends and then insisted that we go with them to a 70th birthday party at the CCFC which is only about a five minute walk from our house and is the oldest cricket club outside of the UK.

It has been good to get in and see the children at school today.  They are an amazing group - some so bright it breaks your heart.  They soak up anything that you tell them - mind you some are as cheeky as the boys at home!  I spentsome time in Kindergarten with the little ones and one much older boy who was working at their level - so I was able to help him a bit.

The staff have such incredible dedication and I got quite emotional telling them how much both Toni and I admired them - they do so much without any resources at all - it put us to shame!

Our afternoon plans have been scuppered by a almost monsoon like rain storm!  We therefore have very little to wear still  (Toni and I looked far too casula at school today in our grubby tops and pyjama trousers) and now very little to drink! - we will have to resort to gin!  Still we will brave the weather later and go across to the supermarket - where I was very pleased to see sells Kit Kats.

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