Kebepura sports day

It's 1 December - it doesn't really feel like December here, but I am sitting in our Mysore field base planning the Christmas menu for when the venturers return. However I won't be back in Mysore for long as shortly I will be going on a loop visit to see the alpha 1 (community) and alpha 2 (environment) groups and after that I'll be on another loop trip to Kerala to see the trekkers. It will be a lot of travelling but I'm looking forward to going back to Kebepura village to see the new alpha 1 and catch up with the school and villagers.


In the meantime, I still have happy memories and photos from Kebepura which I haven't yet recounted on this blog... On our last day we organised a sports day for the village school which was held in the cricket pitch clearing beyond the elephant fence. The sports day was the idea of venturers Amie and Jayshree so credit really goes to them for making everything happen. Races included running, onion and spoon and a school teachers v PMs wheelbarrow race. Winners were presented with garlands.


We finished off with a mass hokey cokey - there must have been about 70 of us holding hands in a ring and dancing the hokey cokey! It was a wonderful moment.