John Martyn is gorgeous, frustrating,daunting, tiring, enlightening and satisfying all at the same time. The school so beautifully compact and quaint. The Main gate opens and a barren square of earth where the children have assembly lies before a raised platform. Every morning the children line up in lines of boy/ girl rows, two for each class, in height order, standing an arms width apart. They then bring out (i don't know what it is called) a mini- piano which must be used with bellows at the same time like an accordian. anyway they then close their eyes and put there hands together and recite a prayer in hindi. Then they7 stand at ease and then stand to attention ad then recite a pledge (again in hindi so i have no idea what about!) and then.....the
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