On Christmas Day, since the school was on holiday our staff decided to take the 15 children who come to our after school program for a full day picnic up on the hillside above Rakkar village. We carried food to make a big pot of khichari with vegetables and curd. While it cooked the children snacked on lots of namkeen and Gachak and played all kinds of games, drawing and cutting out, dancing and loving being out in the clear air in the winter sunshine.