1. How to make mosques, temples and animal faces in the mud (dug up for making a garden inside Ummeed).
2. How to shout one moment, and break into hysterical laughter the other.
3. How to run after 10 kids in 10 different directions and ask them to attend the class.
4. How to do Emotional blackmail :) when everything else fails.
5. How caring the most mischievous kids can be, when it comes to the new born puppies.
6. How the intricate game of 'Gilli Danda' is the best thing on planet.
7. How these kids never feel cold, with half sleeves T shirt and no slippers/socks, when the adults are literally shivering.
8. How they never get tired of surprising me with their mood swings.
9. How carefree, free-spirited and fearless they are towards life and how difficult it is not to get impressed once you get to know of it.
10. How inadequate it can feel at times! There are days you keep thinking, if you're ever going to be able to understand enough, to do enough, to heal enough.
11. How many things they juggle in their head, and how you'll never get to know about it.
12. How observing you have to be to intercept the mild signals to know when they're ready to talk.
point 3...i completely agree!!! that was the most diffi task! i remember i wud take the help of one of the bhaiyas to round up the kids in a class n the moment i wud go out to call some more...they wud all run away!
ReplyDeleten another one... they knw the politics of the day really well... i remember dis one kid who told me how politics is dividing hindus n muslims...
I am pretty sure that kid would have been Deepak Boro, isn't it?
ReplyDeleteno nt deepak bt yaaa i knw we can expect this from him :) n m sure he takes my advice n become a politician. it was some other kid.. uska naam bhul gai :((
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