Today we went to meet our brother in Christ,after the busy day of work.this time i didnt call him so it was a surprise for him.
got there by 5:15 .( prayed to God that please be with us) first think i like about the place is that i see children playing marbles etc.this time i could not stop my self went straight to see their game,it was different then what i used to play .well they were playing for money and i asked them how they win money.simple answer when you shoot all the marbles out. money is left and then you have to aim for it,if you get the coin out of the square you will win.( this is how they get into gambling i think )
any way then we went to see our brother in Christ
he was at his house talking with people.i asked him if he was ready for some studies? his friend was not there.
i asked him to take out subject in which he needs help.he was not sure which one to take out but then took his English book and home work.i was not sure how much English he knows.asked him to read the poem it was written by APG Abdul Klaam.
(my dear soldiers) asked him to read it.well he can read little bit.the words were difficult for him to pronounce..any way his home work was to complete the question given at the end of the poem.
well i had to translate the poem for him then it was easy for him to answer the questions asked in the book.
2 was ( lets speak out) so he had to speak out some words like scorching,approaching,practice,evaluate,tolerate etc he was not able to speak them out properly..the word practice and other took more time in pronouncing correctly..( i wish i was perfect in phonics ) then a boy joins us his name is SANJEET who is 13 years old in class 2 which is not a class for his age i asked why he was in class 2? he had moved back to Bihar and had to come back because his dad had to pay money to different people here in the slum area. should have been in class 4-5 by now but he is in class 2 which is very sad.any way he joined in, so then i did READING TIME with both of them.read a story from the book and asked them to follow me it was a funny story,,in the end he had to do exercise which was biased on articles( a,an,the) well so had to explained,(its hard to translated some things in hindi some times..so that was the first class which we did with two students. had a good time they were happy and i had to give them home work.( write the meaning of words which i had underlined....
next time i will have to take some stationary with me for them which will be helpful for both of us.
the things we observed .1st there was a man who is a rag piker in mussoorie and was there to visit his daughter she is married to a man who lives in this slum . when i saw him i told shanker that he is from mussoorie.this man was busy doing some kind of prayer or act of medication relief for jaundice( peeliya)( jadu-dona ) his son in law was suffring from it for last 3 weeks so he had asked him to do this for him, i asked him if he went to hospital:? yes he did the medicine didnt help him at all.
any way what the old man was going-he had a liquid stuff and was string and murmuring.....( in the brass pan he had mustered oil,lime powder, and water mixture) the colored of it was yellow,that means the jaundice was being removed...
2 the children were playing marbles so i went to play with them and lost,,,hahahaha
but it was fun made new friends...Dhrmender,,,,Vikas,two three more dont remember the names.dhrmender has good aim in it,and i have to give 3 marvels to vikas...
please pray ...as we are heading forward with God's Plan in our life for those people, we really need your prays.
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