Well... Where do we start! Once again our flight was delayed, we set off from KL due to depart at 2.30 with an arrival in Kolkata at 3:50pm with time to get to our train to Varanasi. As a side, we were originally going to spend two nights in Kolkata staying in a guest house called the Bodhi Tree Hotel. But with the delayed start to our trip, our connecting flight to Kuala Lumpur was missed and the only other flight was on the Thursday. We had to catch the connec...

Earth saviors has been a world of emotions. From happy to sad to annoyed to glad. The kids really made you work hard to teacher them. They would do anything in there power to get out of maths to go play Ben 10 (occasionally I would play with them) bit then we would have to get back to the maths. Haha the were extremely smart but got very bored very quickly. So It was more of a mission to keep them entertained than the maths itself. They also liked it when they ge...

Volunteering at earth saviors was an interesting experience to say the least. There were pretty much no resources to speak of at the class room, and the lighting was pretty poor even at the best of times. We (the volunteers) were not really told what it was that they wanted us to teach, so we improvised to the best of our abilities. For me that meant that I just drew up sheets of math and fact sheets and such for most days, and supplemented it with some art ac...

Working at Earth Saviours was an absolute treat! The teachers were extremely welcoming to us. My partners and I only went from strength to strength in our lesson plans. Teaching them "I'm a little teapot" "head-shoulders-knees-and-toes" and their personal favorite "the hokey-pokey". It wasn't all fun and games though! We did teach English lessons, using pictures on the whiteboard as our best tool of communication! When it came to maths, the kids had memorized ...

I missed day one because I was coughing my guts up and vomiting consistently.. I woke up fine the next morning and was eager to get to my placement, Earth Saviors. We get there around 9:30 and I was pretty nervous to teach a class of 30 who didn't speak any English and as I was sick I missed the Hindi lesson the day earlier and spoke no Hindi! I was teaching in a class with maddie and Jack, they kind of took the lead because they went there the day before. At...