First Week of Teaching.

Hello!
Wow, have the past days been a whirl wind! We have been doing soo much every day. Here, in the picture to the left is our wonderful Carley riding an elephant!! When we visited the Temple in Madurai and were touring the inside of the temple we ran into this beautiful elephant. Luckily our friends that had escorted us there specially set up a chance for 5 of us to ride the elephant and get a chance to take snaps(pictures). The temple was extraordinarily beautiful, there was so much to look at and almost every inch was covered in bright colors. Inside we met a group of women whom were in service of the temple; they were so friendly and asked to take pictures with all of us :] This temple visit is what we did on our last free day here in Madurai, once Monday rolled around we started our water safety teaching week.



Our first teaching day was experienced at the YWCA and overall it went smoothly. It was a very good school to break in the members of the group whom have not taught for Project: Swim Inernational yet. Our second teaching day started at a local Boys school; their enthusiasm was very encouraging and I learned how fun it can be to teach any age group. In the afternoon we ventured towards the Gandhi museum where we met with a group of boy scouts. This group was so great and we later found out that a lot of them live in rural areas so the information from our program is really going to apply to them due to that fact that they are around a lot of water sources. After that long day we were all so exhausted, I'm pretty sure everyone was asleep by 8 o'clock here! So getting up today was a tad bit hard but once we ate breakfast and got going it wasn't so bad. For our third day we found ourselves at Vidyalaya Martriculation High Secondary School. It was the farthest away so far but the school and it's suroundings were absolutely gorgeous. They had their own swimming pool so today we got to get in and teach! It was both refreshing and helpful :D

Well I hope you've enjoyed todays entry!

Best Wishes,

The Madurai Group