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Day 9 - 17/02/2025

Today Mrs. O'Brien and Ms. Kinsella's groups went to teach in St. Georges day school again. We taught Geography and English to class 5 and did a PE class with class 3, while Ms. Ni Chairbre's group stayed behind in St. Mary's to teach in the Mary Rice special needs school.

We came back to St. Mary's to have lunch and meet back up with the other group. It was also Katie's 17th birthday today so we suprised her with a mini party including party hats and a red velvet cake. 

After lunch we all headed back out to the city on the metro to try and find Kolkata's largest Mosque. We took an interesting walk to get to the Mosque, where we ended up stuck in the middle of a fruit market, when we eventually found the Mosque we were denied entry. We made our way back to St Mary's where we bumped into the boys from CBS Middleton who had been volunteering at the soup kitchen, and played a volleyball match together. We ended our day by having dinner and chatting.













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