On Friday, Bea and I hosted a lunch at the Mathru School for the Blind to show our appreciation to the school for their help and hospitality. We hope the children liked the food and the sweets that Bea brought from the US 
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Mathru board
Mathru students eating lunch
My good friend and teammate from the 2008 internship, Aysha Siddique, is in Bangalore for the weekend and came with us to Mathru on Friday. She’s visited Mathru twice after the internship, but this is the first time both of us were at Mathru together. It was nice reliving good times with her .
Aysha enjoying a typical Mathru breakfast: Upma and Masala Tea
The BEST chai EVER!
At the end of the 2008 internship, our team made a donation to Mathru. With that donation, Ms. Muktha was able to build cabinets in the Seminar Hall where Mathru hosts competitions and vocational training workshops.
Acknowledgment plaque
One of the cabinets installed
Regarding work, Bea has been collecting secondary data (exam records, cost data, etc.) and looking into potential control data or control schools for the study. So far, the teachers I trained have not had any questions on the Braille Writing Tutor and are planning on training the other teachers this weekend.
We’ve got a busy week ahead. Wednesday is Bea’s last day in India, time flies! We’re planning to interview some students and wrap up interviews in general, continue collecting data, and think of a long-term plan for working with Mathru. I’ll also be working with the teachers to answer any questions they may have on the tutor as well as creating the installation tutorial and training manual.
Dhanyavad (“thank you” in Kannada and also in Hindi) for reading! I’ll leave you with a couple non-work pictures I took at Mathru.
One of the kittens at Mathru
Bird of Paradise flower from the Mathru garden
