http://kuthambakam.blogture.com Experiences at a role model village in India Tue, 02 Oct 2007 23:39:49 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The day started extremely early since Promeeta and Katie were gung-ho on finishing the artistic aspects of the project. While the artists finished full scale drawings for the exterior and made additional touches to the columns Aditya, Amrita, and the IIT boys helped us put up the posters for the ... http://kuthambakam.blogture.com/2006/07/28/day-5/ Well we’re almost wrapping up our adventure here at Kuthembakkem but we have a feeling tomorrow’s final day will be nothing short of a grand finale! Things have been going exceedingly well and we are all extremely happy with the results thus far. After an intense night of drawing on ... http://kuthambakam.blogture.com/2006/07/27/day-4/ Day 3 began with another discussion with Ilango and the 7 IIT boys. We were delighted that Ilango (the Panchayat Leader) had brought his daughter along to help in translating for us. Katie and Promeeta spent the morning trying to find out what the flowers looked like and then sketched ... http://kuthambakam.blogture.com/2006/07/26/day-3/ The 2nd day was spent discussing with Mr. Ilango what illustrations he wanted in the school building and where he wanted to place these illustrations. We reached the conclusion that the visuals within the school building should correspond to the curriculum of the children to make learning more enjoyable, thus ... http://kuthambakam.blogture.com/2006/07/25/day-2/ Greetings All! Today we set off on the first day of our adventure. We first met with the Panchayat (village community) leader who explained the philosophies of a self sustaining village, the history of what he has achieved, and how the government works. He concluded by voicing his hope that this ... http://kuthambakam.blogture.com/2006/07/24/day-une/