We left rhapsody with a satisfied appetite, and headed to our favorite soft serve shop before driving to Leopards Hill School. We arrived and immediately got to work. We planted numerous avocado and mango trees. We also planted a number of beds of spinach and Chinese (which looked like lettuce to us). It was fun gardening, especially because it gave us the opportunity to socialize with the KF kids involved I their agriculture club. Many of us recognized these students from our teaching experiences earlier in the week. It will be interesting to see how the garden has developed an grown by the time Hotchkiss visits again. The school hopes to sustain themselves on this garden. Personally, for Nan and Elizabeth, leopards had been our favorite school, and we were delighted to have been given the chance to reunite with them. Unfortunately this was the last time we would see the kids. We bonded over mud fights and having to replant a lot of the stuff, we had planted minutes before. A few of the kids joked about promising to send us some of the vegetables to America, so we could remember them and see the final results. Although we became quite dirty, and mud covered us, we left happy and with good memories.
We returned to chalo, and unfortunate had no time to shower before dinner, but they continued to embrace us nonetheless. There was the usual power outage which delayed dinner, but the French fries and chicken we were served made up for the brief wait. We returned to our dorms while the students studied, catching up on some rest and taking the much needed showers. We went to bed excited for the sleep in we would get the next morning.
Sunday, June 28, 2009
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