Volunteering in Kandivali.

Gratitude, that's the word I was looking for. The only feeling that beats hapiness is making someone else happy. I can assure you that the warm sensation you feel when a little boy tells you:'Thank you..' can't be compared with any other feeling. How can two simple words, as 'thank' and 'you', have such a profound meaning. I just don't get it. 
 My dictionnary says that a volunteer is:'A person who performs or offers to perform a service voluntarily, un unpaid worker'. I totally disagree due to the fact that while being a volunteer in a little town next to Mumbai I learnt some values that changed my way of watching the world. Volunteering made me realize I have nothing to complain about, the things I would instantly throw to the trash could be someone elses treasure... In a nutshell, I do not see volunteering as a work , is see it as an oportunity to give back a little part of what life has given you.

I spent a month and a half in Kandivali, a town near Mumbai. My job there was to teach math to  kids and adolescents that didn't have the chance to go to school. Each day I was given a small Blackboard and one or two markers. I taught on the streets, the kids would gather around me and hear me as if I was Gandhi. 
It was amazing. Some students really wanted to learn, others not so much. However, you could see in their faces that they were thankfull, that they wanted more. They were thirsty of wisdom...

Once, this kid called Nahumi asked, in the middle of the class, if he could hug me. I was confused, and I acted on the spur of the moment, so I huged him. I understood this kid had really connected with me, despite the fact I was his teacher, we were almost friends....

To sum up, my experience as a volunteer in India was mind-blowing. Not only, did I learn how to communicate with children but I also learnt the true meaning of the word: HELPING.