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| Standing behind the Taj Mahal. |
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| A yoga guru... |
This morning we head off to a Public School, Kindy to Year 12. The school is for the upper middle class and has excellent facilities. We are given a tour through the school and have the opportunity to ask the staff and students questions. Perfect for my research report on how they teach English as a second language.
# School Info: Fees cost 50,000rp per annum. They offer multiple sports and arts at the students choice and have specialist teachers come to the school to teach these activities. They offer also offer yoga and dance, they have two dance rooms for this. There is a gymnasium for working out, two swimming pools and two large ovals with cricket pitches (hockey is still the national sport but cricket is their favorite sport). There is an arts room, with local Indian art techniques etc. Students had recently completed posters to support world peace and peace in India.
They start teaching English at kindy and increase use of English as students ability increases thru the years, and then teach completely in English.
Teach other languages as well including German. This school follows the government national curriculum but it is not compulsory. There are no national standardized testing until year 10 and 12 to measure or compare school results.
The students we spoke to aged 12 to 14 wanted to be Civil engineer, doctor, air force pilot,radio journalist, poet, veterinarian. It was interesting to see the types of career paths they had chosen. I would like to know if they chosen it or if it is guided by the family choice.
We stopped briefly so the boys could shop,they are teaching the girls how it is done. I'm waiting to shop in Mumbai so I enjoy wandering off down the street to look at the local daily sights.
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| A toddler playing on a building site while his mum carried bricks on her head into the hole, then carried sand out. |
Back on the bus and we drive to visit Fatehpur Sikri. This is a temple and tomb of Shah Jahan's son Aurangjeb. It is a beautiful red stone temple with a very intricately designed interior with a gold ceiling. Beautiful.
There were heaps of monkey on the path and I had leaned close to take a photo of a family. One of the students snuck up behind me to scare me which made me jump up, the mother monkey went into protection mode and decided to run at me, I took off and it chased me. This of course bemused all the locals and my fellow students were all very helpful by standing around laughing, videoing and photographing this...lol
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| As I took this photo Ebrihem snuck up behind me to scare me, I jumped up which then startled the monkey closest to me, she then proceeded to chase me. Lucky for me my fellow students helped by capturing this on video and laughing...lucky I can run fast...lol |
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| Everywhere in India is a urinal... |
Back on the bus and it was a long drive back to Delhi. Chantal and i passed the hours by rocking out to our favorite 80's nightclub music. We arrived at midnight to our Aura de Asia laxurious hotel (laxurious - is how they spelt it).
Shubh raatri
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