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Published: June 24th 2009
We arrived in Cochin on Sunday after travelling for 17 hrs as we stopped of in Bahrain. We once again were checked for swine flu, this time we had our temperature taken on our foreheads! Apparently were still swine flu free😊
In our last few days in Egypt, we spent back in Cairo. From there we did a 3 day 2 night trip to the Black and White desert. Saw desert foxes and lots of rock formations. Then back in Cairo we saw the Red and the Bent pyramid.
We are staying in a home stay in Cochin, which belongs to the family next door. Their maid keeps bringin us food and tea. Food is, of course, all curryfied. The milk for the tea is hot, and curdles, so are bellies are rather empty... On the up side they have a huge TV with cable. Dont worry thou we found a supermarket, and were about to have fruit cocktail for desert!
We started at the school for the deaf mainly run by Nuns for children aged 3 to 16. Its interesting, they speak some English, but when we speak to them they nod their heads left and right, so we have no idea if they understand us, or if its a yes or no. Yesterday we covered a class as their teacher was sick, so for 2hrs we had to make something up. Its more difficult than it sounds, as we weren't told in advance, the children dont really speak Malayan (their local language), and of course they are deaf. We did a lot of gesturing, and decided to start with singing "head, shoulders, knees and toes". By the end they all knew the actions if not the words!
The school is very keen on dance. They have a very active crazy dance teacher who is very keen for us to show them some English moves, so far we haven't! There is a art/craft/sport teacher who is a semi professional footballer who spends his lunch hrs in the dance studio dancing to Michael Jackson's, Billie Jean! Dont worry we have it all on tape😊
Most of the children have hearing aids of some sort, there are a lot of body worn aids. They have an Audiometry room, but the Audiometer is broken. We've tried to tell them we can help, but the Nuns dont touch the aids and Carina has the impression they dont want us to, but cant resist pushing them properly into the kids ears!
Were currently in the monsoon season, so its warm, not as hot as Cairo, but really humid. In the evenings it rains really hard, so far we've not been caught in it. This weekend were hoping to go on a motor boat around the backwaters, on the toxic black water that stinks and bubbles.
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Kim
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Dancing
I don't believe that you have no dance moves to show the children. Russ you have to some them your special bust a groove/ move or whatever you were doing at my birthday and Podge has none of my lifetimes worth of dancing penetrated your head?!! Sounds like your having lots of fun and will be even more fun when I come and join you, coz OH YES the genius child passed her exams, WOOPWOOP!!! Be fearful of the deli belly it will strick when you least expect it xx