Two days back Megh learned typing Gujarati on Gujarati typepad and y'day he wrote 'My dream came true. I have build my small hotel and served food. I'm very happy. I earned 8 Rs. in a day.'
Megh made delicious Tuver-ringan (pigeon peas+brinjal) sabzi with green garlic and garnished it with coriander...th he don't like coriander leaves taste. Then when he asked 'why i liked it so much?'...i explained him in detail how aroma and garnishing along with taste makes dishes mouthwatering. Then he asked 'how do we know person liked our recipe or not?' i said 'from the speed he finish it !' Then suddenly i remembered Vithal Kamath's incidence of tasting food out of dish his customer left to check why he left it and told him abt Kamath's book 'Idli,Orchid and me'.....then he became so eager to read it. It is my fav. book but found it's missing from my bookshelf! I brought one from library and Megh has read some chapters. He always love to prepare and serve food...so he is liking Kamat's story. That day he started selling Mamra, made his own cone with logo and charged 2Rs. per cone. Then started taking orders of different recipes he can cook and so does his dream came true!!! 'Dream came true' probably learned from 'Idli,Orchid and me'!
For us this is play but for child you can't differentiates it from learning. Selling mamra or taking food order everything happening with sincerity. Also learning different recipes himself from you tube. He charged & gathered money to buy supplies for next orders!And from his note come to know that he earned money too!!!
This is still an easy dream but another one is there since long...making own boat! We have floating boat but he want his own boat. Not toy boat or not just raft...want to make boat on which he can go for sailing! Difficult and frustrating! I tried to divert him by making toy boat, he made and enjoyed but not satisfied. He ask for our help but we can't help making wooden 'Real' boat. He made his ship himself out of this frustration as shown in earlier post of Child's creations. but nothing brought peace to him.
Sometime back he started making his wooden boat himself without anyone's help. Done all the carpentry work he can do, sanded and painted too. Have seen many videos and websites...th he is not fluent english reader he keeps gathering information from pictures and diagrams mostly. Once during morning walk he explained what is V-hull and why it should be of V shape. Front V-hull cuts water and gives direction and speed ! Name of boat given from his fav. word 'swimming'! Now he want to try it in river. After that he realized fevicol and putty will not stay in water, need stronger structure , need more wood...but still hasn't give up. We could not help but he followed Rabindranath's poem "Ekla chalo re..."
I probably couldn't express his wish, dream or frustration here in words but if you have any idea which can help me to help him please share with me.
Megh made delicious Tuver-ringan (pigeon peas+brinjal) sabzi with green garlic and garnished it with coriander...th he don't like coriander leaves taste. Then when he asked 'why i liked it so much?'...i explained him in detail how aroma and garnishing along with taste makes dishes mouthwatering. Then he asked 'how do we know person liked our recipe or not?' i said 'from the speed he finish it !' Then suddenly i remembered Vithal Kamath's incidence of tasting food out of dish his customer left to check why he left it and told him abt Kamath's book 'Idli,Orchid and me'.....then he became so eager to read it. It is my fav. book but found it's missing from my bookshelf! I brought one from library and Megh has read some chapters. He always love to prepare and serve food...so he is liking Kamat's story. That day he started selling Mamra, made his own cone with logo and charged 2Rs. per cone. Then started taking orders of different recipes he can cook and so does his dream came true!!! 'Dream came true' probably learned from 'Idli,Orchid and me'!
For us this is play but for child you can't differentiates it from learning. Selling mamra or taking food order everything happening with sincerity. Also learning different recipes himself from you tube. He charged & gathered money to buy supplies for next orders!And from his note come to know that he earned money too!!!
Sometime back he started making his wooden boat himself without anyone's help. Done all the carpentry work he can do, sanded and painted too. Have seen many videos and websites...th he is not fluent english reader he keeps gathering information from pictures and diagrams mostly. Once during morning walk he explained what is V-hull and why it should be of V shape. Front V-hull cuts water and gives direction and speed ! Name of boat given from his fav. word 'swimming'! Now he want to try it in river. After that he realized fevicol and putty will not stay in water, need stronger structure , need more wood...but still hasn't give up. We could not help but he followed Rabindranath's poem "Ekla chalo re..."
I probably couldn't express his wish, dream or frustration here in words but if you have any idea which can help me to help him please share with me.
3 comments:
Thanks for sharing Sejal.....so beautiful....you captured his spirit so well!
I have one idea for his boat-building dream - is there any fisherman who goes fishing in the river near your home? Maybe you could go ask them if they build their own boats and would take him in as an apprentice maybe? Or a boat-making unit somewhere there? If you were here, I would have taken you to many such units on the way to Pondicherry!
Thank you Priya...we know some fishermen but they don't build their boat themselves and no boat making unit here but need to find any individual who may be guide us...there is ship building company but have no contact there. It is my long time wish to visit Pondicherry and now after 'Life of pie' Ashna too want to visit this lovely place.
as a teacher,it wz easier for me to work on out of the class/syllabus activities n being happy with those extras...bt bt,being a parent, its all different,i hv to unlearn a lot many prejudices to learn actual education. bravo to four of u
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