Great adventures in Pune! Part Two


Wednesday, February 12th: 

 This was a different sort of a day: Nitai Deranga, long-time director of Ananda's Education for Life, is here in India to start Living Wisdom Schools. He thus organized an outing of prospective teachers and two prospective students--Suarav, Nimisha's son (the snorer, as you will recall!)--to a greatly scaled down version of the San Francisco Exploratorium. This quaint little place was situated in the Pavilion Mall--yes, tragically, large malls are yet another slice of Americana to infest this country--and is called "Amazeum". The following series is of the fun adventures we had therein.

Nice young employee explains how to create a mini roller coaster to Saurav while Nitai looks on

Example of a pneumatic tube; the adults--in this case, Nimisha--participated as well


Mother and son build Lego cars to race each other



Prisha bravely navigates her way through this wavy climbing gym of sorts!


The epitome of political correctness finds its way to India!

One of the kids--forgot his name--and I "drive" a facsimile of an Indian Volkswagen bug!


blowing mammoth bubbles


Most unfortunately, Saurav gravitates to a horrific candy shop outside of Amazeum. It is no wonder that diabetes is becoming almost as much of a problem amongst both children and adults in India as it is in the U.S., so very tragic



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