Blog: Week One.
Date: December 5th 2011.
Site: Kolkata, India.
What I’ve done: I landed safely and the family of a man I met in the sky on the way here drove me in their car all the way to where I was staying (the area is called Swiss Park). Then I slept for a whole day! I ventured into the colourful and noisy streets many times, sometimes getting totally lost and having to use the underground train to get home. I started by following your mission to learn the language. It is Bengali; though so far all I can remember is “dude” which means milk.
I’ve met some children from Tibet at an art exhibition and they say that I will definitely find fairy-tales of the yeti in the mountains where they are from (see if you can find their country).
I’ve taken lots and lots of pictures and films, so keep watching the website to see them as I send them across the world to you.
Oh yes I have to eat with my hands here (only my right one of course). Goodness the food is very hot and spicy.
What you’ve done: your teachers have sent me a lot of pictures from the work that we did together and it is great to see them in the galleries on the website. I hope you can see them in your classroom. You had lots of fun using your imagination to think about what you would like me to do and you started your own stories by drawing pictures and making sculptures (can you remember what they were?). Thank-you very much for doing your homework and joining the Guild of Fairy-tale Hunters I’m sure that you are proudly wearing your special badges. See if you can spot them in the pictures.
What I want you to do for me: I would like you to remember what the tools were which you designed for me. Maybe you could send me some funny and imaginative pictures from your schools so I can show them to the children here. Can you send me a message with the best ones and don’t forget to send me my next mission.
Where next: I’m heading to the book bazar to hunt for fairy-tale books then to catch the river ferry to the train station. From there I will catch the over-night train to Guwahati in Assam (try and find it on the map on the website, remember you can follow where I am on the map as well).
I look forward to hearing from you. Bye for now.