Mireia's sixth letter

Dear students,

How are you? I was really happy to read your letter! It made me almost cry…I miss you a lot, but remember that in a few days I will be there and come back to school with you. You are also the best students in the world! ;) So, Carme’s tummy is getting bigger and bigger? That’s great!

I tell you about my life here: I changed the school. Now I am going to a school situated in a “red neighborhood”, it means that there is a lot of prostitution there, and the children sometimes have no opportunities to study and they are analphabet.

So, this school tries to help them. It works as an orphanage where they can live: sleep, play, study…There is a roof called “rainbow” where they can study with the help of volunteers and teachers from the same school who go up there and teach them some hours par day. And that is what I have been doing: playing games with them, teaching them the letters of the alphabet…It is a really nice experience.

Here you can see the pictures:

But I am really sad because I know I will miss them a lot, as I am also missing now the students I had before in the other school: Loreto Entally. I have met a lot of people, nice people, with whom I have spent the afternoons visiting places, walking through the streets, talking...so I know I will miss everything a lot. But I am also looking forward to seeing you!

I went to Varanasi, a city on the north, where they burn the dead bodies, according to the Hindu culture. Some people cannot be burnt and some others have less privilege when they die, so every funeral is different. It is hard to observe it. After the body is burnt they throw it into their sacred river: The Ganges.

Here you can see some pictures of this particular place:

I hope to see you soon, I miss you very much!


Kisses,


Mireia