{"id":18712,"date":"2020-03-03T11:31:59","date_gmt":"2020-03-03T06:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/?p=18712"},"modified":"2020-03-03T17:14:05","modified_gmt":"2020-03-03T11:44:05","slug":"my-first-100th-monkey-session-asha-elisha-pro-fsl-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/my-first-100th-monkey-session-asha-elisha-pro-fsl-india\/","title":{"rendered":"My first 100th Monkey Session \u2013 Asha Elisha, Public Relations & Documentation, FSL India"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Having heard so much about FSL India\u2019s 100th<\/sup> Monkey programme, I decided to visit St Theresa\u2019s School, and experience first-hand the \u2018workings\u2019 of our programme. I set off with Madhuri, and picked up Madhumathi (FSL India\u2019s facilitators at Bangalore) along the way. My first impression when I walked into the classroom was a sea of smiling faces. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The children were excited to see me (a new face always generates interest) and a babel of voices broke out. \u201cNamaste, Madam\u201d, \u201cGood morning, Madam\u201d, \u201cWhat\u2019s your name, Madam?  I replied to all their queries with an answering smile and thought to myself that this was going to be a fun time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It was a \u2018Project Day\u2019, where the children had to impress on\nthe public the evils of using plastic. They also had to convince them to\nsubstitute paper bags for plastic ones. To this end, they had made paper bags\nout of newspaper and planned to distribute them amongst the many shops around\nthe school. The children were divided into 3 teams with 3 team leaders, of\nwhich I was one. We marched off, full of zeal, convinced that we were going to\nchange the world in no time at all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A fruit vendor, several shopkeepers and passersby were our\nwilling audiences. They smiled indulgently, listened to the children\u2019s\nimpassioned speeches on protecting the environment and accepted the paper bags\nwith a solemn promise to use them in lieu of plastic ones. Of course, we got\nthe sceptical ones, as well, who didn\u2019t think twice about dampening the\nchildren\u2019s spirits with negative statements. Luckily, children are resilient,\nso they bounced back and moved on to the next receptive audience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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After tramping around the area for 30 minutes and exhausting our stash of home-made paper bags, we decided to call it a day and marched back to school. I must say, my little team of 6 girls and boys were very well behaved and in fact, took good care of me so that I didn\u2019t get run over by the crazy traffic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Next was the photo shoot, with everyone clamouring to have their photographs taken by the professional photographer …myself! I spent some time catering to their requests and then had to call it a day. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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After saying my goodbyes and promising to come back again, I left with a bundle of happy memories, photographs and videos to document the lessons learnt at my first 100th<\/sup> Monkey session with FSL India.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Having heard so much about FSL India\u2019s 100th Monkey programme, I decided to visit St Theresa\u2019s School, and experience first-hand the \u2018workings\u2019 of our programme. I set off with Madhuri, and picked up Madhumathi (FSL India\u2019s facilitators at Bangalore) along the way. My first impression when I walked into the classroom was a sea of smiling faces. The children were excited to see me (a new face always generates interest) and a babel of voices broke out. \u201cNamaste, Madam\u201d, \u201cGood…<\/p>\n

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