{"id":17277,"date":"2019-10-01T17:04:52","date_gmt":"2019-10-01T11:34:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/?p=17277"},"modified":"2019-11-04T16:33:31","modified_gmt":"2019-11-04T11:03:31","slug":"we-felt-welcome-all-along-mathilde-work-camp-volunteer-at-balenahalli-tribal-village-hunsur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/we-felt-welcome-all-along-mathilde-work-camp-volunteer-at-balenahalli-tribal-village-hunsur\/","title":{"rendered":"We Felt Welcome All Along \u2013 Mathilde Maurichere, Work Camp volunteer at Balenahalli Tribal Village, Hunsur"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I&#8217;m Mathilde, I&#8217;m 20 years old, and when, with 3 other friends from\nmy school, we sat down in the plane, I didn&#8217;t know I was going to live the best\nexperience of my life. How could I even imagine what I was going to live? 6\nweeks of amazing meetings, 6 weeks to discover Indian and Karnataka culture, 6\nweeks working at Ballenahalli&#8217;s work camp.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"576\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/IMG-20190815-WA0035-576x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17280\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The first person\nwe met was Manjunath, our team leader from FSL-India, the most attentive,\nhelpful and nice person ever. He wanted us to feel at home, he invited us to\nsee his family. Then we met our family in Hunsur, we bonded with every one of\nthem. They were always giving us advice about where to go, what to do. Then we\narrived at the village, we met the masons, the tribal community, the kids of the\nschool. Everyone always smiling helped me. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"http:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/IMG-20190819-WA0003-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17281\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>When I was tired\nor a bit sad to be far from home, seeing people, seeing the kids always happy\nto see us enter the school, it was very nice! We felt welcome all along, even\nwhen we weren&#8217;t very good with the tools or with constructing. The masons used\nto laugh with us. Even if we didn&#8217;t always understand them because of the\nlanguage, it was great to be with them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/IMG-20190819-WA0010-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17282\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>But I&#8217;ve also discovered new food, new culture. We were invited to a\nHindu temple for a festival, we visited a Ganesh statue\u2019s construction, Tibetan\ntemples and restaurants. We saw amazing landscapes, a waterfall; we went to see\nan Indian movie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"http:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/IMG-20191003-WA0029-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17400\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Every day we went to the village to work, it wasn&#8217;t always easy but\nit was always a pleasure to go. We knew we were being useful. We were a good\ngroup and that helps a lot. And the satisfaction when we could finally start\nthe final painting was the best thing! All our work finally finished, when we\nsaw the family smiling, that was it! We knew we had done a good work!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/IMG-20190821-WA0028-Mathilde-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17284\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"497\" src=\"http:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/IMG-20190822-WA0022-1024x497.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17285\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/IMG-20190823-WA0022-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17286\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I would like to thank HILAP, the association of our school, the ESTP, Jeunesse and Reconstruction and FSL-India, who helped to make this experience possible for us. I would like to thank Lexane, Morgan and Riath, my friends from school, for their good mood and hard work. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/IMG-20190823-WA0026-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17287\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>I would like to thank our family in Hunsur, who made us feel at home. I would like to thank people from Balenahalli, and the kids from the school, for always smiling at us. I would like to thank the masons and Tiger, for joking and working with us. I would like thank Manjunath for always being here for us, and for being our friend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/IMG-20190821-WA0006-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17289\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>If you would like to volunteer at Balenahalli Tribal Village, please contact <\/em><a href=\"mailto:camps@fsl-india.org\"><em>camps@fsl-india.org<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/IMG-20190823-WA0035-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17288\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m Mathilde, I&#8217;m 20 years old, and when, with 3 other friends from my school, we sat down in the plane, I didn&#8217;t know I was going to live the best experience of my life. How could I even imagine what I was going to live? 6 weeks of amazing meetings, 6 weeks to discover Indian and Karnataka culture, 6 weeks working at Ballenahalli&#8217;s work camp. 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