Great news: The basketball hoop is complete and the new pavement is being put to great use!! I taught the kids 21 (one vs. everybody else) and played 3 on 3 until we couldn’t see the ball anymore. Today we learned the legendary playground game Bump and the kids kept wanting to play. Man, it’s great to be playing basketball again.
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| Uttam deleted pictures from the first two days...this is day 3 |
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| Day 3 |
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| Day 5 |
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| Starting the hole for the hoop. We eventually decided to make the post concrete instead of metal - cheaper and easier to install. |
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| Stuart and I gettin' dirty |
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| Laborers posing with the first half of the post right before they politely asked to be paid |
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| Carpenters assembling the backboard and hoop during the Class 10 last day ceremony. This is what the post looked like this when I returned from Darjeeling. Everything was mounted within the hour |
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| First shots fired |
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| Nareswar puttin' on a clinic |
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| End of the first day of festivities. It looks pretty good! |
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| Applying the finishing touches. We still need to paint the backboard and make a key, but other than that it's done. |
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| The pavement itself has many uses as well. Here it's being used to label the states of India. Notice the brick work around the trees... |
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| Meditation before Bihu dancing |
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| Bihu dancing |
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| Stuart teaching geography lessons |
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| Preparing for art competition |
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| The competition |
Thank you everybody for their love and support. I'm so glad to say this is my contribution to Parijat Academy but I really didn't do much - it was everybody else who made this project come to life.
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