Hey guys, hope you're having a great day,
So I've been in this great land for 45 days, it's been long and short, and I've loved every minute of it (Well, most minutes). I still have 109 days till I'm back in Aus, I'm nearly 1/3 of my way through my time here and that does make me feel pretty sad. I had a countdown back home until I left for India and those last 100 days felt incredibly quick, so i'm a bit worried everything here is just going to fly by and before I know it, i'm back in Australia.
I'm happy with how I have settled in here, I have made some good friends, my grades aren't horrendous and I don't yell in agony every morning about the day ahead. One of the best things over here is the increase in independence, you are more capable of shaping how your life is. You can sit in your room on your computer all day long or you can get out and take in all this school and place has to offer. I prefer to get out of the dorms as often as possible and extend myself because I reckon the only way to really improve yourself is to step out of what your comfortable with and 'Step into the unknown'. This is obviously a lot easier said then done and sometimes I must admit i've been scared off by something but I believe everyday I'm getting better at it. One thing I've done to get out of my comfort zone is the D.O.S.T group which works in Dunda village. I went again to the Dunda village last Saturday, the school had organised a scientist to talk to the villager's about efficient farming and to tell them to avoid using these seeds called hybrid seeds. These hybrid seeds contain lot's of chemicals that means a high chance of a successful harvest but it ruins the land so after the first crop using hybrid seeds, the farmer's cant plant natural seeds for about 3 more years. I went along with one other student and group of teacher's plus the scientist and we held 2 meetings for the people in the Dunda Village and surrounding areas. The meetings were all in Hindi so I had no idea what they were saying at the time so I just sat on the floor for 2 hours, half asleep trying to pickup the small fragments of Hindi I understood. Still it was a great opportunity to see how a large proportion of the world live.
During lunches and after school on Monday and Thursday I've been doing some indoor rock climbing in the room they have in the gymnasium. My friend Cory is a big climber so he's been teaching and mentoring me on my climbing technique and showing me some cool routes. Here's a little video showing off what I've done so far.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0K7B0EZV5Ik&list=UUzHuJWZbjCbmEnBZ1VpVwqQ
Hindi is going pretty well, were going through the topics incredibly fast so sometimes it is hard to keep up with everything but I'm really enjoying it. I've learnt how to have a basic conversation with someone, like: what is your name, how are you, where do you live, what do you like, do you know such and such. Drawing and Painting is also coming along pretty well, it's a pretty laid back class and we meet only twice a week. Here's a picture of the first assessment we have done. I know it's not that good but i'm pretty happy with it knowing that i'm not any sort of artist.
There is school cross country tomorrow so we have a shorter day and we run 3km's. No one is going to take it seriously so I'm looking forward to just mucking around with my mates. There is a house system at this school but it is only used for whole school days like cross country, very different to back home.
Now that i'm on the topic of back home, a few people have asked me to say the main differences between here and Aus. Obviously you got your easy differences, such as language and culture, I'm not going to dive to far into that because western movies and stuff have provided a pretty good image of how it is, and to summarise my dad "India feels as it is: multiple religions, cultures, vehicles, laws all blended into one surging pool of nonstop humanity." A personal difference I have felt is that this place give's a lot more opportunity to achieve greatness, I don't really know how to explain it, I look around and see so much more potential and most importantly, true happiness. It's a sort of happiness I've never seen or experienced before, a happiness that doesn't come from money, good job and smartness but an overall peace as hard as rock. This happiness is beautiful inside and out and comes from a place deep within, I only wish I had the words to describe it better.
Well my computer's on 2% battery so ill stop rambling on now. I hope you have a great week and ill see you all in my next post.
Stay well,
Lachy Wild
So I've been in this great land for 45 days, it's been long and short, and I've loved every minute of it (Well, most minutes). I still have 109 days till I'm back in Aus, I'm nearly 1/3 of my way through my time here and that does make me feel pretty sad. I had a countdown back home until I left for India and those last 100 days felt incredibly quick, so i'm a bit worried everything here is just going to fly by and before I know it, i'm back in Australia.
I'm happy with how I have settled in here, I have made some good friends, my grades aren't horrendous and I don't yell in agony every morning about the day ahead. One of the best things over here is the increase in independence, you are more capable of shaping how your life is. You can sit in your room on your computer all day long or you can get out and take in all this school and place has to offer. I prefer to get out of the dorms as often as possible and extend myself because I reckon the only way to really improve yourself is to step out of what your comfortable with and 'Step into the unknown'. This is obviously a lot easier said then done and sometimes I must admit i've been scared off by something but I believe everyday I'm getting better at it. One thing I've done to get out of my comfort zone is the D.O.S.T group which works in Dunda village. I went again to the Dunda village last Saturday, the school had organised a scientist to talk to the villager's about efficient farming and to tell them to avoid using these seeds called hybrid seeds. These hybrid seeds contain lot's of chemicals that means a high chance of a successful harvest but it ruins the land so after the first crop using hybrid seeds, the farmer's cant plant natural seeds for about 3 more years. I went along with one other student and group of teacher's plus the scientist and we held 2 meetings for the people in the Dunda Village and surrounding areas. The meetings were all in Hindi so I had no idea what they were saying at the time so I just sat on the floor for 2 hours, half asleep trying to pickup the small fragments of Hindi I understood. Still it was a great opportunity to see how a large proportion of the world live.
During lunches and after school on Monday and Thursday I've been doing some indoor rock climbing in the room they have in the gymnasium. My friend Cory is a big climber so he's been teaching and mentoring me on my climbing technique and showing me some cool routes. Here's a little video showing off what I've done so far.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0K7B0EZV5Ik&list=UUzHuJWZbjCbmEnBZ1VpVwqQ
Hindi is going pretty well, were going through the topics incredibly fast so sometimes it is hard to keep up with everything but I'm really enjoying it. I've learnt how to have a basic conversation with someone, like: what is your name, how are you, where do you live, what do you like, do you know such and such. Drawing and Painting is also coming along pretty well, it's a pretty laid back class and we meet only twice a week. Here's a picture of the first assessment we have done. I know it's not that good but i'm pretty happy with it knowing that i'm not any sort of artist.
There is school cross country tomorrow so we have a shorter day and we run 3km's. No one is going to take it seriously so I'm looking forward to just mucking around with my mates. There is a house system at this school but it is only used for whole school days like cross country, very different to back home.
Now that i'm on the topic of back home, a few people have asked me to say the main differences between here and Aus. Obviously you got your easy differences, such as language and culture, I'm not going to dive to far into that because western movies and stuff have provided a pretty good image of how it is, and to summarise my dad "India feels as it is: multiple religions, cultures, vehicles, laws all blended into one surging pool of nonstop humanity." A personal difference I have felt is that this place give's a lot more opportunity to achieve greatness, I don't really know how to explain it, I look around and see so much more potential and most importantly, true happiness. It's a sort of happiness I've never seen or experienced before, a happiness that doesn't come from money, good job and smartness but an overall peace as hard as rock. This happiness is beautiful inside and out and comes from a place deep within, I only wish I had the words to describe it better.
Well my computer's on 2% battery so ill stop rambling on now. I hope you have a great week and ill see you all in my next post.
Stay well,
Lachy Wild
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