A Little Sightseeing

So my Saturday experience consisted of Neil, Julia, Anne and I (all teachers) going to the Lahore Museum, The Science Museum and Shalimar Gardens. We were going to go to Lahore Fort but it would have been very crowded and we would have been surrounded by people.

The Lahore Museum was actually very neat because the artifacts are from the Indus Valley which was around 2,000 BC. Sooo coooool!!! I just taught the Indus Valley on my practicum at Mt. Doug for Comparative Civilizations so I really appreciated seeing the real deal after I had been showing pictures in my class this whole time.

Cubes for weighing on a scale

An Indus Seal artifact with Indus script

Beautiful detail on the window

The ceiling inside the museum

An old door with very intricate detail. Very much like some doors in Cairo

We had a very cute group of school boys follow us around the museum. And they would come right next to us and point through the glass at some artifact and then just stare up at us. They were trying to be all sneaky thinking they were interested in the ancient artifacts. The foreigners were much more interesting.

The museum from the outside

And then we went to Shalimar Gardens and had a group of school girls come up to use trying to practice their English. They followed behind us for quite sometime as if we were celebrities and they were our fans. Very interesting feeling.

The Shalimar Gardens was beautiful...The architecture is amazing. There was no one there which was awesome, except for the school girls and a few locals. The gardens were built in 1641 AD. From the basin and from the canal, rise 410 fountains, which discharge into wide marble pools. I bet it would be beautiful in the spring time when the flowers are actually blooming.

In 1981, Shalimar Gardens was included as a UNESCO World Heritage Site along with the Lahore Fort

Beautiful

 

Right now at school we are wearing long sleeves and long pants. This, let me tell you, really really sucks. Especially for PE teachers. I am outside in the hot weather wearing a long sleeve and long pants. This is the governments way to try and prevent Dengue Fever from spreading through the schools. It comes from mosquito bites. We should only have to do this for another week or so. Last year the school was shut down for a week because many students and teachers caught Dengue. So I guess this is a pro active way to prevent Dengue through the schools. Who knows if it works.

These signs are everywhere while driving to help prevent Dengue Fever. I don't know what it says but definitely 'no mosquitos'. I got that part.

 Anyways, I am really used to the hot weather now if I am having to teach in clothes head to toe. Tonight we are heading to a party of someone who owns a Sugar Cane Company. He apparently lives in a really nice house and he is also an ex grad from LAS back in the late 70's I think. He is well known in the foreign community hangs out with a lot of teachers.