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| Photo credit: Ben |
After Ganesh festival we decided to go on an adventure and get to know more hidden parts of our district. This is how we ended up in a small community next to the river ('Baner village') and got into a spontanious playful battle with the children around.
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| Photo credit: Ben |
15-20 children gathered around us quite quickly and even though first they were intimidated by us, after a while we ended up in an epic flower war on the 'main street' leading up to the river. They used up the leftover flower decorations of Ganesh festival (it was just the day after) and the wet sponges the flowers were stuck into. No need to say we failed miserabely and got our ass kicked by the little ones. The boys, have been playing cricket for years, were really good at aiming, and the wet sponge balls hurt more than you would initially think.
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| Photo credit: Ben |
Some of the children could speak English and they kept asking us the same questions - probably the ones they learned in school - just to keep us talking. One of the questions a little girl asked me was: "Who is your mister?" and when I answered "I have no mister" she clearly thought that cannot be right. She came over to me again, asking: "Where is mister?" and got quite confused when I answered once more: "There is no mister".
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| Photo credit: Ben |
As we were wandering around the streets, a big group of the children were following us, but it was obvious that boys had more 'freedom' to move around than girls. The young boys were following us for quite a while (until their school, where we passed by), while the girls only came with us until the end of the street.
They kept asking us to come back on Sunday and play with them, then after some time they got more brave and asked for some pocket money. The initial playfulness and pure curiosity turned into 'street-smarts' real quickly.
They kept asking us to come back on Sunday and play with them, then after some time they got more brave and asked for some pocket money. The initial playfulness and pure curiosity turned into 'street-smarts' real quickly.
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| Photo credit: Viktoria |
Nevertheless, it was a surreal and lovely experience and we hope to go back to the 'village' soon and maybe do a project (e.g.: hand painting a wall) with the kids, although we had language problems, so if we do so, we will definitely need a translator with us. Until then we need to level up our game, so we won't get beaten up that much!
(Update: flower petals are seriously, extremely hard to get rid of.) Enjoy the lovely photos!
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| Photo credit: Floor |
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| Photo credit: Ben |
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