Between 3-6 children came and drew / copied animals from a work sheet that Wiebke’s mum gave her for school lessons. The children really love copying these pictures of elephants, tigers, camels…. And some of them are really talented. However, it seems to be that they prefer copying things to being creative. Maybe over the next few days we can encourage them more and more to draw their own pictures.
As well as the art project, we also had a microscopy workshop running. That even attracted the adults and so we looked at dead cockroaches, live ants and flies and a dead salamander using our 4x magnification glasses. 
Young and old are so excited to see these things magnified. Later, this workshop turned into an english-nepali lesson and Alastair and Wiebke learned some new words and phrases.
Our neighbour, a 6 year old boy, always comes and wants to play with us. He got so excited about the 8 m long skipping robe we bought a while ago and it is fascinating what different games you can play with it. This of cause attracts the other kids and we had some really nice circus evenings where they tried to walk the tightrope. The youngest participant is 9 months and she gets really excited holding the rope at one end as the other children are jumping over it.
Having to deal with all the school children during the day, we thought that maybe it will be too much to have children around our living place. But it is a really joy to have them around us and especially during the drawing time when we can read and they play next to us in silence.
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