All glories to Srila Prabhupada

My obeisances dear Gurudeva

I tell you about Srimad Bhagavatam classes for children. First, I was invited to participate with some online classes on the ISKCON Mexico facebook page. It was a very fun experience and it helped me a lot to have practice in the interaction with the virtual audience. The class format was simple, just selected some stories from the Bhagavatam, like Matsya Avatara, The Butter Thief… I complement the class with power point presentations with illustrations and photos alluding to the story. During the story I ask questions and the children, with the help of their parents, answer through chat.

HpS - SUper!

During the pedagogy career I learned to organize classes, face-to-face and online. I have a certain inclination for face-to-face classes, but now I realize that there are so many possibilities in virtual teaching and learning environments. All study modalities have advantages and disadvantages and today teachers have to adapt to the needs of students and present knowledge in an attractive way.

HpS - When preaching to dogs one must include a lot of dancing.

Some devotees and people who had seen the recorded classes on the ISKCON Mexico page asked if we could continue with more classes; so, I decided to join with more devotees Priya Sakhi from Chile, Dayalini Sita from Cuerámaro and Nikunja Nivasini who currently lives in Mayapur and is a teacher at the Mayapur SMIS International School. For now we start with a one-month program of Srimad Bhagavatam classes on Sunday mornings, supported by Mother Aruddha's book. The transmissions are made through the zoom platform and we have a WhatsApp group, we are already more than 35 families. We also activated the Anjana Suta Academy Kids Facebook page and from there we publish the classes and share educational content.

My idea is that more devotees know Mother Aruddha's books and can buy them, although, in Mexico it is somewhat difficult due to the change of currency from Mexican pesos to dollars. In reality, the Mexican peso is not worth much compared to the dollar and that makes it much more expensive for us to buy Mother Aruddha's books. Govinda Pramodini from Monterrey is working on the Spanish translation of the first book, but it still takes some time to get it printed.

HpS - Yes, and she will certainly give permission to print cheaper copies for Mexico.

My medium-term project is to do a distance school. It seems difficult, but it really is not. My children study at home and are enrolled in a Catholic school at a distance, have more than 500 students enrolled and only offer basic education curriculum to be implemented by each family at home. So, I am researching and studying various options, talking to interested devotees and analyzing what would be the best way for us.

Gurudeva, about the Sastrica Education Symposium in Houston. How could Mexico participate in these events?

HpS - Tomorrow night we can talk about this!

In June or July we will move to Tepoztlán, a very beautiful and warm place; so, I hope that soon we can offer you a space so that you can visit us in the middle of mountains, many trees and flowers, maybe, a beautiful cow.

Sorry for this long letter. I hope you are fine. Thank you very much for your time, dear Gurudeva.

Your servant Gopi Radha DD

HpS - Very excelellent news!!!!! FOr the White Witch... not for the BLack Witch. See you tomorrow night!