Nov 27, 2010 / 11:14 am
Thanks to the miracle of Skype, students from St. Mary School exchanged greetings, songs and questions with children at an orphanage near Delhi, India, last month as part of a series of events planned for the Branford, Connecticut school’s 50th anniversary.
"It was a lot of fun," said fourth-grader Cara Samson, capturing some of the excitement of the students. "We got to see people in a different country and talk to them and stuff."
Despite periodic breaks in the connection, students from St. Mary’s gathered in the parish center to watch children in India perform a song they had composed in English to honor the school’s jubilee. The Indian students also danced to music from the movie "Slum Dog Millionaire." It was 10 a.m. in Branford and 7 p.m. in India.
St. Mary’s held the cyberspace event with Ashalayam (meaning measure of hope), an orphanage in India where more than 150 children from the age of 8 to 18 are cared for by the Salesians of Don Bosco.