The VALE committee showed up today to
observe the program and I think were more entertained than they anticipated. It
is “What is India?” week, and the rural Peruvian kids were properly decorated
in bindis and vermilion powder before they started their yoga session. Hirma
took pictures for us…
The rest of the session was spent
decorating their hands and arms with washable markers in traditional henna
style.
The best part of today’s session was
discussing who Ghandi was. His one sentence definition was, “He fought for the
Indian peoples freedom with peace instead of war.” When they were inquisitive I
told stories of how he acted non-violently to wide eyes and open mouths.
There is something special to being the person
who shares world knowledge with individuals who potentially will never hear the
names Mahatma Ghandi, Adolf Hitler, Martin Luther King Jr., Bob Dylan, Winston
Churchill, Bill Gates, Fidel Castro, Nelson and Winnie Mandella, Carl Marx,
etc. Not only do they miss out on individuals that affected change, but they
are missing out on the theory and the ideas behind these people. Every teacher knows that moment when
you teach someone( especially a child) something new, and it clicks, they get
it. It is the most refreshing and motivating second of a teacher’s career in my
opinion. Somehow, this moment I experienced today feels different. When you
take something you assume the entire world knows, understands, and perhaps even
remembers and introduce it to someone cut off from that knowledge. It has its
own distinct beauty.
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