Teachers and Trees

Yesterday was "Teacher's Day". A day set aside throughout India to honor teachers.

Here we are with our Hindi teacher, Pinky, in a "cabin" (aka "office") where we have class. It's tiny by American standards -- probably about 5 ft square.

To completely change subjects. Today was Parent-Teacher Open House at Modern School. Sometime between the time the faculty and staff arrived and the parents and students arrived, this tree fell across the road.

It's not a very big tree, but it effectively blocked the road.

Not only did it block the road to the school, it also blocked one lane of the major road.

It must have fallen all the way across the road at first, since a pole in the median was also crushed. (Or maybe something big took down both the pole and tree?) As you can see here, even though this is a divided road, you can't count on traffic going in just one direction on either side.

Since I haven't seen a cross-cut saw, much less a chain saw in India, this will be quite a job to remove. When we have seen workers trying to remove a tree, they were using an ax. Quite a job!