A Saturday Nature Ramble in Loly Goon

Outside the Hostel

Posing for my Picture

What have I found?

The children, of one of the hostels for St. stephen's School in Loly Goon, and I decided to have an outing to a nearby forest which had been developed to attract visitors.

We set out for the forest about 10am on a Saturday morning , taking along with us, a plastic bag to collect different spieces of leaves and wild flowers in. We also had a big bottle of water, 2 apples cut up into small pieces, a few plain saltine biscuits,some raisins and 2 sweeties each, for our lunch.

We had a wonderful day out,and the children and I had learned many new words, the children English words and me the Nepali word for many of the different trees, plants and insects we had seen.

In the evening we made a collage with the leaves and flowers and Miss Susan, the teacher who ran the hostel told us the names of some of the flowers and from which tree some of the leaves had come.

St. Stephen's School Concert Loly Goon

Getting ready for a Nepali Dance Routine

Infants ready to go on stage "Fruits of The Earth"

I want to share a few photos with you from St Stephen's School Concert.

St. Stephen's concert took place a few days after the one at St. Joseph's, Git Dubling.

The staging was built and erected by the parents of the pupils who live in the village, two days prior to the date of the concert, so that the children could have a full rehearsal on the day before the concert. All went well at the rehearsal.

That night, the night prior to the big day, we had a terrible storm and the stage and the tarpaulin covered in area for the visitors, was completely demolished.

The villagers turned out in mass at 5am, first light, to start building again. All was ready for the first visitors arriving at 10am. The concert did not get started until 11.30am as many of the visitors coming from further afield, had had to walk along very wet and muddy pathways.

The concert went well ,much to the relief of the staff and pupils of St. Stephen's. And the visitors all appeared to enjoy their day out.

St Joseph's School Concert---- Gitdubling

Lining up for the Entrance Parade

The boys from class UKG; even they get make up on.

A mixed age group; helping each other to apply the finishing touches.

Posting some pictures of the children of St. Joseph's getting ready for their annual school concert.
A lot of preparation goes into the presentation of this.

They, the pupils, give performancies using the English, Nepali and Hindi media; and use music,dance and drama.

Schools from all around this area come for the performance and parents and guardians are also invited. Because many of the visitors have to walk for several hours to get to St. Joseph's, they are offered a light snack and the adults tea and the children juice.

The residents of the village of Gitdubling all get together, build the stage, help get the pupils made up and into their costumes,which are all made on site, and help with the snacks,teas etc.

The concert is a wonderful opportunity for the pupils.staff and villagers to get together and show what can be achieved with lots of hard work and co-operation.