And it's time for some fun!
It's not that the teaching at UFV Chandigarh has not been fun….but the students haven't been the only ones working.
Our final exams have been written and grades completed.
Congratulations to my OB students! You proved that effort does lead to better performance and that leads to achievement of outcomes. There is a theory about that, isn't there?
We have had a great time working with some very talented students, and we expect to meet many again when they are at UFV Abbotsford completing their degrees.
November birthdays did continue this week.
Adi had his 24th and we presented him with some "memorabilia" of his favourite subject--girls!
But, where is Barbie?
This was just one of his several birthday cakes. It seems that every birthday in India must be celebrated with at least three cakes.
Lunch was at the Marriott and the group posed for the traditional photo on the stairs.
A visitor from home -
Shabnam Brar, Abbotsford businessman, was visiting the Punjab and stopped at the campus for a visit.
We hope this will be the beginning of a relationship between Dashmesh Punjabi School in Abbotsford, a passion of Shab's, and UFV Chandigarh.
Although he doesn't know us all that well, he presented us with a written "analysis" of our family members' personalities--George and me as well as Wade, Matt and Blair! He was very accurate!
We so often meet friendly people who want to sit and chat. We do stand out in Chandigarh. Sony, a young woman from Ludhiana, joined us when we went to our local McDonalds. She actually has relatives by the name of Sidhu in Abbotsford.
And now we are saying goodbyes! Bethany will be the first to head home to Abbotsford and she treated the gang to lunch at Hot Millions.
We wanted to say thank you to the staff of drivers and cleaners, these amazingly loyal, hardworking and respectful men who treat us royally.
Brojinder, Suresh, Sanjeev, Anil and Harbans are modelling our gifts of UFV sweatshirts.
Unfortunately, Radhe was on leave today. He knows exactly how and when we want our morning coffee and afternoon tea.
Simlee, Adi, Mushtaq and Sanjeev have also been supportive and good friends to us.
Of course, Dilmeet and Gurneet are UFV Chandigarh! What leaders they are! Students and staff are well served on this campus.
We will miss them all and will soon have to say our final goodbyes.
But first, it's off to explore Southern India--the beaches of Goa and the backwaters of Kerala!
