Week 2 Update

During our weekend off the students spent their well earned break visiting the Norbulingka Tibetan Institute where they dove deep into learning about Tibetan culture and the importance of trying to maintain it. We even took part in some Thangka drawing where we attempted to draw Buddha. (Mr Sarsfield still claims his was the best!)

After we took a drive to Dharamshala where we visited the cricket stadium and took a cable car ride up to Mcleod Ganj visiting the famous markets, trying some Tibetan food and visiting the Dalai Lama’s house/temple.

On Sunday we visited the famous WAH Tea Plantation where the students delivered important session around health and hygiene to the migrant worker children before sampling some of the famous tea that gets sold to Harrods!

Monday came back around and the students got straight back into teaching however because of their hard work, Mr Sarsfield organised the Palampur Olympics for the students where they took part in various fun events such as an egg and spoon race, relay race, wheelbarrow race and a plank competition representing countries based on students heritage such as Morocco, Poland, GB and India. We have also taken part in traditional Sari and Turban dressing workshops!

The students have nearly completed what has been an amazing 2 weeks in India and they have done themselves and the whole of STCAT proud! I’m sure they will have many stories to tell and photos to show (and hopefully a few presents to give!), but for now keep an eye out for the final update before we leave later this week!

We also took part in a community clean up helping to tidy up and get rid of all the litter from the local community. It’s been a really rewarding trip so far!