First day of school! A post from Kayleigh and Ty.

Day three and we have all started our school adventures! We all got on the bus this morning and went to tour our schools and meet our mentor teachers. Ty, Kayleigh, and Taylor are at Orchid Garden and were immediately greeted by smiling playful children. We met Bina Basnet, the director, and Sunita, the curriculum coordinator who gave us a short tour of the seven classrooms making up this strong community driven school.  The three of us got to watch the students’ morning meeting where they recited the Nepali prayer, national anthem, and several English nursery rhymes, where we still were only able to recognize “no more monkeys jumping on the bed”. After morning meeting, we were all thrown into the two-year-old room with four toys and 26 two-year-olds! The toys consisted of a bucket of chalk, a bead sort, a puzzle, a ring sort, and various stuffed animals and as chaotic as it sounds, us three and the 26 two-year-olds spent our entire morning laughing and enjoying every moment despite the language barrier. Currently it sounds like the three of us will be spending the week together in the two-year-old room then possibly rotating to see more classrooms in the following weeks. The morning flew by and we spent the afternoon hanging out and sharing tourist stories with other volunteers from the Netherlands and Australia while the students took their afternoon nap. We ended the new day following two calves down an alley towards the bus to head back to our hotel and get ready for tomorrow.