I love the salmon pink colour of the sunset in India. It is good to spend a time with family drinking chai (milk tea) every morning and evening. In India, time flows slowly than other countries like Japan. I came from Japan. I married an Indian and live in India. I live together with my husband's family. My husband and I run 2 hotels in Bodhgaya. We also run free school for poor children. I would like to introduce my amazing life in India.
The roof construction completed in Surya Bharti School!
Please listen to the students' happy voice!
This video was recorded when the roof construction started.
2014, there was historical heavy rain disaster in Bihar state, and Surya Bharti School had also beg damage by heavy rain.
This was the damage.
Previous roof was old small tiles, and got damage not only heavy rain but also by the earthquake happened in Napal.
Therefore, we had stopped whenever it's heavy rain students had to put all the textbooks and notebooks away form desks because rain water powered down from the roof.
Rainy season continues about 3 months.
Not everyday is raining, but it caused disturbing the classes.
The roof construction completed in July 2019.
New roof is made of concrete, the ceiling is high, it protects students not only from heavy rain but also from the heat in long summer season.
All the students and teachers of Surya Bharti School express great gratitude from our deepest heart to the support from El Cantare Foundation in Hawaii.
Nail extracting operation succeeded and the student is coming to school again!
Karan came back to our school!
He has been absent from school since 1 and half month ago.
He got accident one and half year ago.
A track hit him when he was riding a bicycle going back home form school, and he got serious damage like comma, full body bruise, and fracture of femur and hip bone.
He was hospitalised and had several operation putting metal inserts to fix the fractured bones of femur and hip bone in a hospital at Patna.
One year and a few months passed, the time had come to put the metal insets away, and he went back to the hospital in Patna.
Unfortunately, after the medical examine before the operation, the doctor said "the last operation of metal insets was fail. We have to fix the bones with more strong metal insets."
And the doctor told the cost of the operation will be a few more times of the metal extracting operation.
His parents were at a loss, and they searched another hospital.
They searched several hospitals and they found a clinic for surgical treatment in Gaya.
Then, the doctor saw the results, said "It's not fail. You can get the metal off from your body. We can have the extracting operation."
And, the operation had done, Karan was in the clinic for 4 days, after that, he was at home for treatment.
January after winter vacation, Karan has come back to Surya Bharti School.
He as pain a little, but he can walk!
Before the extracting operation, he came to school by bicycle with metals inside his bones.
It's more then 5 kilo meters away from home to school.
His house in the other road which is in different route of the school bus.
Before this operation, he dropped tears.
He can't go to school after the operation for a few month.
I cheered him up, "You have operation on hip and legs, so you have head and hands free. You can bring textbooks, and study."
He is very enthusiastic student.
His future dream is to become a mechanical engineer.
His father is a carpenter, so he is interested in making things.
Karan said, "Now, I can study as much as I can!"
Thanks for everyone who prayed for him during the operation!
After visiting a company, the CEO invited us for dinner in Izakaya in Osaka,
and they ate various kinds of Japanese food.
They ate Sashimi-raw fish!
(Indians don't eat raw fish in their culture)
After this experience, they got used to eating and enjoying raw fish.
They are quite the challengers!
They got on Shinkansen-bullet train for the first time!
from Nagoya to Shinyokohama.
It was their first time buying lunchbox at the station.
(Although They selected sandwich...!)
After getting off the bullet train, they practiced the method of throwing
the box and bottles separately into different dust bins, at the station.
They ate Unagi/eel fish in Kyoto for the first time!
(My husband who is an Indian likes it very much)
The sauce was sweet but the eel fish tastes very nice, they said.
(They don't usually like sweet taste meals)
And we visited a house construction company at Ayabe in Kyoto.
They visited the construction site whose building structure was built in just a day.
And they even got to visit model rooms and
were very surprised to see the latest technique of
Japanese wooden construction.
After that, we had a party with the carpenters
who built the library hall in India,
which is in Surya bharti school both these students were from.
They were also there to help the carpenters together at that time.
They learned how to do Dekopin game from the carpenters, and
ate various Japanese foods and cake!
It was so fun!
Construction of the library hall in India
They stayed about 2 weeks with the host family who took care of them very much.
The host family taught them how to cook, how to fold Futon, how to clean,
how to throw garbage etc..
They learned about the Japanese life style.
They visited companies, factory, city hall, and high school.
They also had meeting and party with the supporters
of Angel Aid Association in many places.
They learned how to buy train ticket.
At the end of the tour,
we went to Nara.
Since they are very familiar with cows and goats,
they got used to deers really quickly which was nice to see.
When we visited the great Buddha statue in Todai-ji temple,
it reminded them of Bodhgaya.
On 24th December, with the completion of Japan tour, they flied back to Gaya airport via Bangkok.
(They had a one day trip in Bangkok which we will give you the report about later!)
They are studying Japanese language with more efforts
after coming back from Japan,
with lots of good memories.
We give thanks to all the people we met and those who
helped take care of them in Japan!
I hope you will support them in the future as well!
