The day began with school again. The program looks thorough and if it is all completed will be great. The question is how does one instil internal motivation?
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| Beautiful Delhi day and beautiful blooms |
Another sensational cloudless blue sky for us to explore Delhi. This really is the right season to travel in India. It would be horrible in the wet with the filth swimming about in puddles. We took the Metro to Central Secretariat and realised that in our bag swap before we left the apartment that we had left the map at home!!
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| Shady avenues aplenty |
We made our way to the Ministries of various departments, both mirror image magnificent buildings, and walked to the President's residence (up to the police guard fence was as far as we could go). This was a very clean area of Delhi with beautiful gardens and flowers and pristine roads and pavements. Obama would have stayed here and seen a different India from the rest of the city! We could see the India Gate in the distant haze.
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| Looking down the road to the India Gate |
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| Outside the President's Residence |
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| President of India lives here! |
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| Handstand outside the President's Residence, India Gate tiny in the background |
As we could not get through the President's Residence to where we wanted to be, we walked back down the grand road and walked past Parliament House. It is surrounded by a wall with guards and is clearly not a tourist destination.
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| Sandbags stacked ready for riots are common as are guards with guns. |
Desperate for food we noticed a large gathering of public servants at a street kitchen which was doing a roaring trade. We had pakora and paneer and also some sweet pastry rolls filled with artificial cream(?!) and followed this with an ice cream. I can't get enough of the kulfi - SO smooth and creamy and dreamy! Karl is a kulfi convert now, too.
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| Glad we have our appetites back! |
At this stage, we were just wandering in what we thought might be the right direction of a large park with deer and monkeys but without the map, had no idea. We did, however, stumble over the Gurdwara Bangla Sahib, a huge Sikh temple with a large internal lake, a Sarovar, of "holy" water. The boys were all tired and sat down whilst Annika and I ventured in. We had to take off shoes and socks this time and cover our heads with head wear provided. We walked through the water trough, hoping it was chlorinated. This temple serves the community and offers food to all. We were interested to see so many people bowed down so reverently and kissing the floor and steps.
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| Gurdwara Bangla Sahib |
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| Sarovar - Holy Lake |
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| Sikh and daughter admiring |
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| White marble again! |
Again, the beautiful white marble
carving which adorned the exterior was stunning. I was glad of my new
sunglasses to reduce the glare!
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| Head covered and barefooted we went in! |
On the inside of the temple it was gold and glistening but as there seemed to be a fair bit of worship going on, I didn't take photos. This was also not a place for a hand stand.
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| Common macaque near the metro eating someone's afternoon tea! |
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| The sign says it all!..but Uncle isn't listening! |
Once back at Lajpat Nagar, Karl found a street cobbler to fix his shoe and Luke found another Famous Five book and some sweetcorn.
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| Street cobbler - great service! |
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| Barbequed sweetcorn. | | |
Interesting day. Re your first paragraph, I'm not sure we can motivate anyone else! We can inspire perhaps by being a fine example, we can punish for not doing, we can talk about reasons - but in the end, motivation to learn or work hard is internal, normally because someone sees the need... and not before that. The top headline from a single Google search gave this: https://hbr.org/2013/07/if-you-want-to-motivate-someone-shut-up-already/ar
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Thanks for your wisdom!!! He is internally motivated to bargain with his parents!
ReplyDeleteGillian here. I've just managed to catch up with your entire blog as Kylie gave me the link a week ago. I'm loving following you around on your adventures!! Graham and are are semi fasting twice a week so it is best not to read your posts on those days as they always leave my mouth watering!! The photos are excellent, what camera do you have? We Dangerfields all send our love.
ReplyDeleteThanks Gillian, Re fasting - we do it as well but not voluntarily if you know what I mean..... Re camera Nikon 340 on special from JB Hi Fi for $199 Tim found it on special - point and shoot and fits in my pocket..Love it and sing its praises daily...but it is hard not to take good photos here...
Deletedon't worry Helen, I've spent most of the day trying to "positively motivate" James to do his mountains of homework and test revision also..... it would be much harder when there's a whole world out there to explore like you have :) I had to do a google search to find out what Kulfi was, it does sound delicious!
ReplyDeleteFeeling the pain Kylie...grindstone comes to mind...but I don't want to leave them to their own devices completely because I feel responsible for their learning as you do! Kulfi is one of those tastes you crave for and never forget!
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