DDR Sikkim
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I want to dance, dance, dance 'til the sun don't shine...
I don’t actually know the lyrics, but when the kids hear the song, it’s like a dance party on crack.
Tags: bhuriakop, dance, dance party, india, kids, photography, school, sikkim, teaching, volunteering
Not exactly paint by numbers
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My buddy Phurba
Sundays are a day off, which usually means we drum up arts and crafts projects for the boarding school children to stave off boredom.
This particular day, we’re painting our own Buddhist prayer flags. See below. Continue reading this entry » » »
Tags: art, bhasha, bhuriakop, culture, dog, india, kids, painting, photography, school, sikkim, teaching, volunteering
Still have a few (million) newspaper readers over here…
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Read, please!
India is a few years behind the digital revolution that has crippled U.S. newspapers. The paper is still one of the primary news sources for millions of people too poor and/or not savvy enough to use the Internet. Even TVs remain rare.
That will change inevitably, especially considering the boom in mobile technology here. Too, India’s literacy rates — particularly in the rural sector where most of the country still lives — favor a future involving more multimedia forms of news like streaming audio and cell phone news packages.
Tags: bhuriakop, india, journalism, kids, newspapers, photography, school, sikkim, teaching, volunteering
Often, the place smells like feet
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Lots of little feet
Shoes in the hall.
Tags: bhuriakop, fashion, india, kids, photography, school, shoes, sikkim, teaching, volunteering
Cut loose, foot loose
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Kick off your Sunday shoes...
Second- and third-years practice a Hindi dance routine.
Tags: culture, dance, india, kids, photography, school, sikkim, teaching, volunteering
Hop, skip and a jump
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I'm not coordinated enough to teach them double dutch
I have worked a bit with the kids on their rope jumping. Remembering the two visits I made to a boxing gym in St. Louis. Karina, in the middle, is the best so far out of my second-years.
Tags: bhuriakop, india, jump rope, kids, school, sikkim, teaching, volunteering
Learning to lace them up
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Shoes are difficult when you're that little
This is Anurag, one of the younger students at the school where I volunteer “teach.” He’s four and some change.
He knows how to tie his school shoes, but hasn’t quite figured out how to put them on without collapsing the heels. I help him from time to time, but he doesn’t have much patience and often just runs off with shoes half on.
I also order him to clean his nose regularly, because he’s usually snotty. “Tumhara nak saph karo!” Damn cute, I’ll say.
Tags: bhuriakop, cute, india, kids, photography, school, shoes, sikkim, students, teaching, volunteering
Fisherchildren
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Pondicherry kids look into the camera
Down by the jetty. And I didn’t have to pay them.
Tags: children, fishing, india, kids, photography, pondicherry
The kids love me
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Home, dusty home
I take pictures of street kids everywhere I go. This comes from the bare home of some poor families my cousin does work with in and around Jaipur. I visited them in 2004.
I enjoy pictures of children for many reasons. Though still don’t know if I want my own some day, I appreciate their innocence, their relativism and their ability to laugh in most circumstances.
I’m traveling at the moment in Rajasthan with Joel and Kate. I won’t be near the Internet much for several days. Enjoy preset blog posts.
Tags: india, jaipur, kids, photography, portrait, poverty, rajasthan, slum
Graff love
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Ahh young stupid lovers...
Humayun’s Tomb, a 16th-century edifice built with a wife’s grand love for her emperor husband, becomes a canvas for the fleeting passions of innocent hearts.
Tags: delhi, graffiti, humayun, humayun's tomb, india, kids, love, photography, tourism, valentine's day
