By Express News Service, 06 Mar 2009 02:48:00 AM IST
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Around 25 students, reached the city on Thursday in a ship, MV Explorer, as part of their ‘semester at sea’ programme and visited the government-aided primary school and spent a few hours with the students.
During their stay, they also painted 14 classrooms as part of their project work on shore and entertained students with the skills acquired on board.Speaking to Express, K Chinnaswamy, Headmaster of the school, said, “Most of our students, who hail from economically poor background, enjoyed the presence of foreign students and greeted them for being here.” Besides students themselves, it was a surprise for people living along the school premises. They thronged the (school) venue to see them doing painting work and even tried to exchange words of courtesy to student visitors from the US. Mark Lazaroff, the ship’s communication coordinator and who accompanied these 25 students to the school, said, “It was a nice experience for students, since most of them saw India for the first time.”
Ananthanayaki Primary School was established in 1974 at Vyasarpadi to cater to students living in hutments and belonging to the economically weaker sections of society. After having students’ strength in double digits for the first few years, now it has a healthy 400 plus.The ship, Explorer, along with 780 students arrived in the city on Thursday on a five-day visit, and its last port call was at Port Louis, Mauritius. Besides visiting schools and orphanages during their visit, these students are expected to undertake 50 field trips during their stay.
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