2/25/2008

Our big family



























....they will always wait for us to come back - and we will!

Thanks to Julie, our never-tired photographer!

One, two, three - ACTION! How we spent our time with the kids?













Work in the garden












Our big effort - teaching how to deal with the garbage












Presenting one of the projects, put to life with the help of our carpenter - library for keeping of all kind of working materials for the kids (Free access)












Small ones - beautiful simple things with own hands












Simulating....What to do when someone has diarrhea?












Our health expert Jana;)











Preparing for the carneval!













Picnic time












Sewing class (making lady bags)













Cooking project (a lot, a lot of aubergines)












Sunday - playing and drawing











Alternative sport games I












Alternative sport games II

Beautiful moments of non-complicated life













Our room - small, but with good aura:D












Bathing and washing in the river












Hindu festival - get up before sun, bath in the river and put small boats from banana tree in the water:)












Village entertainment programme - all-night theater! Millions of coolours!!!












View from the rooftop of the orphanage












Eating time or kaiva, kaiva!


















Beautiful women in saris picture (almost perfect;)












Cut and glue or calendar making workshop












What goes together?

Sweetest memories - photos from project: STAFF
















































































Up-down:
Kuni - our beautiful, powerful cooking woman;)
Manju - strongest Indian woman I have met so far!With smallest girl Borsa
Komola - our strong and cute hug every morning (and not only)
Bono - the responsible;) funniest conversations!
Lili - sewing teacher. well, almost...

12/29/2007

Take all your Indian time....

Didi, Namaste, Ser, Namaskar!
After a long, long break (Internet next to our village was quite unbearable;), Nika want to post some philosophical thoughts inspired by India;) So read and enjoy;)


Carpenter will come tomorrow, and we are going to plant tomatoes tomorrow, tomorrow I will find out about the bus...
Because carpenter has a cold today (but he will be ok tomorrow), and seeds today are not available, and bus man has gone to the temple...
Forget about planning in India, and just be happy with a conscience that one day the things will be “automatic coming". Use what you have here and now, it is the best what you can do. Be open and flexible!

Be happy:
Smile about unfulfilled plans - it is the most appropriate way to deal with it.
Joke with a street vendors, who do not understand "no".
Laugh, because Indians are so sweet, so is their English, which makes conversations a real adventure ;)
Wake up with a feeling of adventure each morning, because India likes it so much to plan things for you and you never now, how and where are you going to end this day. And somehow, in the end, it makes life so much easier here.
Don’t ask why if you don’t want to get silly answers – just trust. Accept that things have their own way of being here.

Everything is possible in India – (one our friend would add “and nothing is available”) – buses are never too full, goats can be transported on the roof or as well inside the bus and chicken can be colored pink for better appearance in the weekly market. Women can bath in 4 o’clock in the morning and wake up at midnight to perform loud worshipping rituals.

Learning how to live simply – the truth is that human beings can adapt fast to different living conditions – spoons are not necessary and neither is toilet paper. You can eat rice three times a day and be very happy. How you see the things is just creature of your mind based on your experience and can be changed very easily.