I had my first session at a knitting group today. It was both a fun and funny experience! I've met the ladies before, they were the first ever day care I went to, to teach health information.
It was a bit stilted to begin with, I didn't know their level of knitting knowlegde and I'd only taken a few patterns with me. Turns out some of the women could knit and some couldn't.
With the women who could knit; we used a bag pattern that was supposedly 'easy', turns out it used complicated phrases unnecessarily which meant I read it wrong after about 4 rows! Oops. I ended up telling them my mistake and they laughed and happily started again. I'm now worried they think I'm stupid, saying to each other "why is she doing a knitting group, she can't even read a pattern properly?!" Hopefully they'll still turn up next week! Knitting will be Thurs/fri.
Mon/tues/weds is health info group. I go to different day cares and do a mini lecture on different topics that the ladies ask for; last week was diabetes, this week is cancer and detection.
I make little posters that have very simple info in English and Hindi, with my poor attempts at explanatory pictures. They run through the information that people will need and it means it's easy enough to digest that it's not passed on incorrectly through the grapevine.
I still get called Doctor-ji every now and then but I cope with it ;)
After the info session theres time for the ladies to ask me any questions they have about health. A lot is how to conceive children (I had to do an ovulation chart and explain EVERYTHING for 20 mins one day) and to explain what the doctors have told them.
I feel a lot more settled than I did, I think as I said to begin with its a slow burn. Hopefully having more of a routine will help too.
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