One Saturday Morning...

Saturdays are destined to be fun filled days. After five days of working hard in college there comes the weekend to relax and unwind. We wanted this Saturday to be different. We wanted to spend it usefully for a cause. It was with this notion we decided to go to Olcott Memorial High School as a part of the activities of the Social Causes club of our college.

After a lot of group chats on Friday evening, planning various events that we can host for the kids we finally set out on our mission yesterday morning.

Being at the school for the first time, we were greeted by this kid who asked us if we were new there. We nodded and followed him as he led us to their prayer hall. The rest of our team joined us there and we were around twenty in number.

We split ourselves into two groups and took charge of one section each. The first session was an English class. The volunteers read to the kids a snippet about octopuses and we were amazed at how the kids could comprehend the passage. We also learnt a lot of things we didn’t know before. Next, we had to help the kids out in reading the same passage again and also make them solve a pretty tricky set of ‘fill in the blanks’ and ‘Make sentences’.

The next session was in the computer lab, were the kids were taught about making powerpoint presentations. We taught them the basics and were surprised on how creatively they worked. Three best presentations were also chosen and their makers were given cool prizes.

We headed to the prayer hall next and enacted a small skit which was almost made up instantaneously in less than an hour. The theme was ‘Importance of Education’. Being a very interesting and engaging skit, the children were able to grasp the message so well that they  even volunteered to come forward and narrate the gist of the story. And yes, they were also awarded prizes for that.

Time flew away so fast and before we knew , it was time for us to leave. After a lot of chit chats with the kids and a dozen pictures clicked ,we bid good bye to them and promised we would come back soon.

A fine Saturday morning, well spent.