19th MARCH 2011

                                                       Are we to cry or to smile ? :( / :) ?

Was a perfect personification of 'MIXED EMOTIONS' Was the last day of the current year at RKM..
      
But wow! Some heck of an experience it was. A lump of ups and downs smiles and smiles dying out. A lot had gone through in the hearts and minds of our very potential Dronas. As planned earlier we had goodies given out to our mentees. 1 ink pen , 1 ball pen , 1 pencil , 1 eraser ,1 scale and 1 watch (which delighted them the most) was given out by the mentors to their respective mentees. It was sure a very emotional day with a few mentors kinda having their eyes filled..awwww...! All the mentors had their last talk over followed by a photo session and a lot of wishes and words of encouragement.

        But hey! Amongst everything, We are rest assured all did carry great memories, learnings, experiences and a lot of long lasting friends. A few Dronas would be parting from the sessions. But but but.. NOT THE FAMILY !!! ONCE A DRONA ALWAYS A DRONA. :D

Bows and salutes to all the dronas, who carried out everything with great passion and made DnE what it is today!

13th march 2011

Venue : RKM..!

Tring ..tring..time for dne 10 am the session began!

 A very serious day ... our kids have their exams knocking at their doors ,and we had an experienced and retired teacher among us to give them ideas on how to face examinations.                                                                                                                                                              She started off with how to prepare for the exams .She gave them the following ideas:-

§    Be cool! All izz well!

§    *Subjects to study during morning,noon, evening and night.

§    *Write neatly!coz first impression is the best impression.(though not true in all cases)

§    *Concentrate on the text book information as it helps to learn things from scratch, helps you to give the best and also gives the impression that you know the answers well.

§    *Importance of time management for each paper.

§    *Do not panic during exams coz it does not help you in anyway.

§    *Preparations should be serious work, use colour pens to highlight important information during preparation so that it stays coloured in your memory forever.

§    *Finally, do your best and god will do the rest!

So our guys are off to face it smart and confident! The session was covered by a student from womens Christian college for her project, a documentary.

few  of our Volunteers had a short talk with her regarding dne and its functioning.

Mentoring went on for sometime, and everything seemed to be quiet serious today. Totally felt the heat huh?

Winding up session made things more interesting!...next week dne is gonna wind up with this academic year. Discussions were done on how to wind up.ideas came up from everywhere corner and we decided to gift our kids something before they leave..and then we came up with the idea of a card,exam stationery materials and a wrist watch! Cool! We have mentally prepared them to face the exams! Let’s now sit and watch them coming out in flying colours!

Venue: St. George 

As is usually the practice at St. George's, the mentors were in front of the
kids' hostel at 9:30 awaiting our precious little demon to come out of their
wonderlands and join us for yet another sunday with a group activity
iterlaced with fun-filled moments. that's when Bhargav, Kenny, Joel and I
started kicking the football around the ground (we were no match for the
kids. but we did manage to get our legs on the ball now and then) while
Vijitha was chatting with Katherine (Kat), Christina and Rachel.

Today Vijitha came up with a game called "Identify Jack the robber" (well at
least that's what i vaguely remember calling it, some of the kids were
reeling out similar names one after the other!!) wherein each person
(mentors included) picked up chits of paper where the following were
written:
(1) Police (2) Jack (3) Associate-1 (4) Associate-2....Associate-n (just
prepare as many chits as there are participants

The games starts off with everyone sittin in a 'round' circle (that was
Damu's phrase!!) facing each other. Then Police announces that he's the boss
while the others keep traps shut. Then Jack winks at each of his associates
without being spotted by Police. Then the associate declares "Received
Signal" (or something wacky) to let the others know that he's been contacted
by Jack, and then leaves the group. One by one the contacted associates
leave the group.
The fewer the associates that escape and sooner that Jack is caught in the
act of winking at his associates, the higher is the Police's score.

So whats next ??????

It was the very first - "Drona's Day out"!! We decided to meet up at 5pm at Gandhi beach!

Had a lovely evening filled with fun in the water, bajjis and fially ending the day at Dominos :D !

Just as all children are not equally intelligent, all children are not equally creative. But just as all children exhibit behaviours which evidence intelligence from birth, they also exhibit behaviours which evidence the potential for creativity.
Creativity is essentially a form of problem-solving. But it is a special type of problem-solving--one that involves problems for which there are no easy answers
-anonymous


Now we know what creativity is all about .we just saw it today!Every mentor must have smiled Jwhen their mentees came up with mind-blowing ideas from the materials we gave(:news paper,colour charts,tapes,and colour pens).


Cheers!! The great minds are working!

From Laptops to ..flower vase..handbags...beach...apartment..airports...isnt it awesome!!!:)
All this came out of those little minds from just the little things we gave them..And we can be sure that our country is going to do well coz these little minds are already on work!
Proud to be a part of dne right!:) gr8 job!

Since the creative session went on and on we couldn’t make up with the learning cycle!It was Creativity at its best 

Mentoring went on well..guess all had a nice time with kids.