Showing posts with label SIBBC. Show all posts
Showing posts with label SIBBC. Show all posts

Friday, 28 September 2012

Sports Week!

This past weekend was "Sports Week" for the college here. We had a blast participating in some of the events, and just hanging out with the students. They had a really wide range of events set up from football (soccer) to essay writing. Below you can see a picture of Tim throwing a javelin. He also had a lot of fun playing soccer, badminton, backwards running...  I was recruited to be in a couple really fun events, group pictionary, essay writing, and a couple events that involved acting out stories. They also had some really fun little races like the lime on a spoon race. You have to hold a spoon in your mouth and run to the finish line while balancing a small lime on the spoon. We both won that race for our teams, so they were joking that we've had 10 years experience in the USA. lol Ya, we run around with limes on spoons all the time. :)




 Above: Saturday night for the final program they had a big feast for everybody kinda like we had on independence day. This time we ate outside, and they brought the food out in these giant pots hauled over on the tractor. It was really yummy, and yes, I ate with my fingers. :)

Above: This is one of my violin students, Chris, all decked out in his traditional outfit for a skit.

Saturday, 28 July 2012

Campus Tour part 2

The Cherian's house. We eat lunch here everyday.
The snack shop
Main Auditorium
Tree-house and soccer field
Volleyball
So there's your small tour of the main campus area. There are more dorm and faculty housing, but I don't want to bore you. Until next time...

Campus Tour part 1

In this post, I'm gonna try to give you a little feel for the setting we are living in here. The college campus is located in a village on the outskirts of the city of Coimbatore. 

Here is an overhead view of the campus.  The shaded areas are not owned by the college.


This is the "academic block" where all the college classrooms and library are located.
The Guest House. We are staying in the room top right. More about this later...
Looking toward the academic block from outside our room.
The students dining hall. There are over 300 students plus boarders who are attending the matriculation school who take their meals here. They eat in shifts that are announced by a very loud gonging dinner bell thing. I think the first shift eats breakfast at 5:00 am. We are not allowed to eat here. Apparently the food isn't all that great.
College girl's dorm
Home of Hope orphanage