Archive for June, 2008
Flying High
Since the arrival of our new English trainer, Arbind Singh, the Spoken English classes that we’re offering on behalf of Bagar Employment Institute (BEI) have taken new form. As someone who works to facilitate and support the Spoken English course and the trainer in various capacities, I have seen the new Spoken English batches since [...]
Read More..>>A take on Leaders
A few of my friends [and fellow Interns ] are running a Summer Camp for 11th and 12th graders at Bagar [soon, I would not need to hyperlink Bagar to the Wiki article, @ Steph ]. In much of urban India, summer camps are a fad. There are camps for all sort [...]
Read More..>>Meet the Interns
As Preeti posted a few days back, GDL is currently hosting a lot of interns from UPenn, BITS Pilani (Pilani and Goa campuses), Tufts etc.. The flurry of activities is thrilling and interesting. Before I start updating you about the projects we , the interns are working on, let me post what a few [...]
Read More..>>Week 1 of Summer Camp
After setting up the plates and cups, in preparation of the Summer Camp’s first meal, I waited outside. Suddenly I saw them coming – 40 summer campers. We had anticipated 25.
Since then, running the summer camp has been a challenge. We had to rearrange the schedule to accommodate so many students. And we are struggling [...]