Blog: Week Three.
Site: Nagaland.
What I’ve done: here in Kohima I visited a school where sister Atula told me of her tribal home near Mokochung and said that I must try to visit her brother in the spring time when he will have collected fairy tale stories for me to take home to you. Many people here call me the alien, as if I was from outer space! They are very friendly to me and we are having a lot of laughs. I have tried to send you emails from internet cafes which are powered by batteries and home-made computers, but they are too slow to upload videos. Imagine making your own computer from scratch. The internet café was looked after by a child of 10 years old. Many children all over India and Asia cannot go to school and I have seen many many children working. Sometimes they are doing very difficult jobs.
I have met two people who are going to translate and email us local fairy-tales (one is about a wizard and a giant cracked boulder). They will talk to the elders and I was told to return here in the spring to visit their long houses.
I have received messages from the teachers in Kathmandu and the children there are very excited to meet you on the website.
I am always drawing in my sketch book and I use it to communicate when I cannot understand the local languages (there are over 20 in Nagaland alone).
What you’ve done: I hope that you are enjoying following the website in your classrooms and that you like what you are seeing. Your teachers are planning exciting things for you to do soon and maybe you have your own ideas of what you would like to see on the website, if you do tell your teachers. I hope that your fairy tale stories are looking good and I am looking forward to seeing them on the bookshelf on the website.
What I want you to do for me: I would like you to send me fairy Tale newspaper articles, so that I can put the on the website next to the ones I am uploading about my journey of discovery.
Don’t forget! Send me my next mission.
Where next: The long journey towards the roof of the world and the home of the Yeti!
I’m looking forward to hearing from again you soon. Bye for now.