"Teacher's Day"

HOW MUCH FUN can we have? Today was Teacher's Day, a day when students in schools all across India celebrate teachers. Students dress up as their teachers and take charge of the classes, all the while suffering from some particularly naughty new students. These new students (the teachers in disguise) sit in the first row, pulling pranks and cracking jokes. The new "teachers" scold them with wild theatrics and earnest faces. Then all have cake! The "teachers" cut the cake and feed the "students" with lots of messy, messy results.

At the Rainbow School, we had fantastic, beautiful sarees on our little student/teachers. In the middle, sitting, in a coral saree is Swapna who was in a past blog post "Politics." Her hair is finally growing out, and she moved up to 2nd standard. Smart girl! The boys dressed up as the government officials rather than teachers. We have had unusually frequent contact with the government officials so the students know them well now. (There is a current challenge to our land for the school, they have been by almost every day this last week. But no worries it is almost resolved.) This litle guy in the gray tie is our "District Collector!"


The school is unusual with respect to all the non-teachers around. Here is a little guy dressed up to be Ismail, he really got a kick out of it. This little "Ismail" comes complete with a planning book, sunglasses, and a hand-on-hip pose.

Teacher Neha decided she needed to dress like me. She wore a wild, wild outfit for a young woman from Mastan Nagar - she wore PANTS.