After being here almost a week I am certainly more settled, although I wouldn't go as far as saying I know my way around at all yet! India is an overwhelming place with exciting but dangerous driving and general business on the streets but the teaching makes up for everything else and adds some stability and familiarity to my days.. The children are lovely and play much better than I expected, so the lessons aren't tedious but grown up and dynamic - more responsive than some English kids! All the teachers are desperate to learn as well so stay in the lessons and are very intelligent, surprising me with their interests and good english... The children are extremely hard working so even the less talented ones are difficult to teach, and in general I have been 'wow'ed by some of the talent I have seen.
My work is divided between 3 very different schools, the Calcutta School of music is where I teach violin and theory, in C4 I teach mainly piano, and at Dolna school I seem to be running assemblies and teaching half the school a song at once!! This very wide range means the teaching is always different and I have to adapt a lot, but it's still enjoyable!
I'm still getting to grips with life here in India, and 2 months seems like a very vast amount of time! But with only 7 weeks left of this amazing experience I'm trying to get all the experiences I can and hopefully really influence the teaching over here ...
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