(Feb. 3) TODAY! WAHOO!
We had our first real(ish) day at Prayasam!!!!
Unfortunately Erik was busy, so lone wolves Becca and Rita properly found the building in 15 minutes (rather than 50). We met our boss dude, Amlan, the founder of Prayasam. He is hilarious. After much humorous chitchat about pampering but overbearing Indian host families for interns (ahem) and inspirational discourse about child empowerment, we got to go meet the youth we are working with. We traversed into an unknown part of Salt Lake that was pulsing with energy even though it was crumbling away. In a one school house/multipurpose meeting room, we met like thirty kids. The little ones left and we got to know a little better the older ones. Most of them have already done so much even though they are so young and have far fewer opportunities. They make us look like bums!
http://www.prayasam.org/
I have high expectations for this. Granted, we're not writing grants or doing other hard-hitting work; maybe we are not necessarily doing as much in a quantifiable way, but darn it if we won't have 12 times more fun in the process. Erik will be teaching guitar (he's the favorite amongst the youth already for that purpose and they haven't even met him yet) and Becca and I will be trading off running a small library and painting a mural in the office, with some help from the kids.
I have no detached humorous statements to finish this post. I'm just real flipping excited.
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