To start with, this is the Corbett School, or, it will be in a few months. Right now half of the 18 planned rooms are finished and in use. Opposite the Corbett School is a block of five classrooms:
These are sort of open to the air. Back to the original Corbett school. Let's go inside.
Don't the finished classrooms look nice? Let's go to the roof.
Ok, here we are. As you can see Hebron Camus is decently sized. The big blue building on the left is where the rest of the classes are being held right now. This building was originally the boys dormitory (on top) and the Telagu Medium School (on bottom) but now it's totally taken over by the Corbett school in the day. The kids sleep there at night and some of them in the unfinished building at right. There's not a lot of room because those classes are full of desks. The smaller blue building near the center of the photo is teacher and administration quarters on the top floor and a kitchen in the bottom.
Probably almost impossible to see through the trees is the sprawling one story building to the left of the unfinished construction sight at right. That's the residence for Sagar and his family, and his extended family, and us, and any
one else who needs a place to stay. It's quite crowded at night with people sleeping on the floor. There's also a printing press back there where Hebron earns some money by printing hymn books.
The great muddy swath is the kids playground for cricket, football, tag, whatever. When it's dry at least. This picture is just after a big rain. Apparently when the rains are massive the whole thing fills with water and the kids slog around with water halfway up to their knees!
Let's go see where classes are taught now:
Yep, that's Grace teaching in one of the dormitory classrooms! Going now to the entrance of the campus there's an open area where sometimes people play cricket as seen here (in other Cricket news Grace and I bought an AMAZING cricket set. It would probably cost 150-250 pounds in the UK, but it only cost 33 pounds here!).
What's that in the background you say? Let's look closer...
No, that's not 75 foot pile of sand - that's a pile of rice husks! You know the white rice that we cook? When you pull it off the plant it doesn't look like that. It's in a little brown sheath. That's a rice mill over there and that's the pile of removed rice husks. Apparently it's good firewood...
Moving into our own accomodation...
Although this is Grace, I'm sitting here right now! This is our main hangout. Behind Grace is our room... let's go in...
We have a TV! All the classrooms are supposed to have TV's in the future, but as only half the classrooms are finished, might as well not let them go to waste...
Anyway, this has been home for the last 6 weeks!
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