School’s out for the summer - our final months
This last term has been packed with teaching and visitors, and I’m so proud that I’ve made it to the end of the teaching year. There’s been two lots of past volunteers coming to visit as well as one of my friends from the UK. We’ve also had countless good times with the volunteers from Arnakot and Jhimpa; Alix, Freya, Kieran and Oscar as well as some visits from Eli in Pyuthan. There have been four Project Trust volunteer birthdays, as well as at least five weddings or births or first rice eating ceremonies. This term began with big motivation to make learning fun, since there were no upcoming exams so we felt like we had a lot more freedom with teaching. That meant that we’ve been able to do some great work with library club, and I’ve tried to stray more from the textbook and focus more on games and creative ways to teach (the Nepali textbooks are very random and sometimes have little indicator of what is actually trying to be achieved with the activities written). There