Community Service

Saturday, August 3^rd was a bright day and to brighten the faces of the children at the Government school at Manikonda, a group of 11^th graders guided by Kshema, Heer and Amogh visited the school. There we divided ourselves into 9 groups – 7 teaching groups and 2 activity groups. We reached the school at around 10:30, and we assembled into our groups and met the kids. The children were very welcoming and excited to see us. I took part in the dance team which consisted of Avinash, Sahiti, and me; we interacted with almost all the grades. We conducted our dance classes on the terrace of the school building.

Our first batch was the fifth graders, who were very eager to learn all types of dances. The dance which they enjoyed the most was the Macarena. In fact, we held a mini competition to decide who the best dancer in their grade was. They also danced to a song which they had previously prepared – a song for Robo. The next couple batches seemed to enjoy Telugu songs more and made up their own dance for some of the songs. In fact, they made the students’ assigned to their grade dance with them!

The children went to eat lunch around 1:00, so we took our leave from the school too. Most of the kids came to see us off and a couple of us got friendship bands for the kids. Overall, for me teaching the kids was a great experience and I loved every second of it. I met a lot of different types of kids who had different type of talents and personalities. It was a great opportunity and a very fruitful day spent with the little ones -  Ridhi Reddy (grade IB 11)