After a long grueling road trip for the past 5 days, I finally got a chance to get back to real India, the country side. I visited the school where my mother teaches and some pretty good fun teaching the kids whole afternoon. They are so curious and excited to learn new stuff. After a quick fun tour around Euclidean Geometry (to solve life’s burning mysteries like, How many chapathis it would take to fill a big farm, et. al) , I tried to tell them about the whole solar system to the atomic subdivisions. Every one was so shocked to know what happens when sun dies.I reassure them that they won’t be here by that time – hopefully.  I spent almost 4 hours with them, I’m honestly surprised how much they know, given the lack of facilities or resources. This is a pretty small school where every teacher teaches every subject.

Kids from school somewhere here.

The school is basically  a simple shack, as you can see in the background. A couple of classes actually happen under the trees. Some of the kids attend the school because of the free mid-day meal, but most of them are genuinely interested in learning new stuff. I brought a bunch of Mars for every one in the school – and their faces were lit up with joy.  Reminded me of my school days in a Govt. Primary School.

I’m sure someday more than one of them will be blogging and hopefully they’ll remember the fun time we had.