Kids go off to pathshala from on alternate Sundays. Some kids go for 1 1/2 hours and some go for 3+ hours. How do the adults who come to drop off their kids spend their time during this period?
Maybe others can get some suggestions and ideas by the things you do.
How about going for a brisk walk at the mall without your wallet, make sure you get your weekly exercise in!
Since no one is taking the bait here is the list that i know that people do 🙂
– Farmers Market in Great Mall every Sunday.
– Indian grocery shopping at New India Bazaar / Sugandh
– Great Mall / Walmart shopping
– ICC in Milpitas
– Lecture in temple itself (not sure if this is still happening)
– Have not seen people using laptop in the temple as such. So not sure whether they have WiFi or not.
– Milpitas Library is on same street as Temple. But it opens only at 12 on Sundays.
– Great Mall opens only at 11am. So parents with Language Shala kids only can visit it for shopping.
– There is Wi-Fi in temple and I have seen people working on their laptops.
– Library in temple. They have some good story books though limited seating.
– We had couple of Masala Bhangra sessions in Spring. We should restart them in 2010.
Due to parking issues & snack time in between, one barely gets 1hr. to do anything additional.
Recently few friends have put their kids in Bal Gurukul. It occurs every weekend, Session of Hindu religion education followed by language Shala. They don’t have snack time in between. Hence teacher only take kids from one class to another. And parents get good 3hr. slot. 🙂
The pathshala time at temple in a way gives the adults also a chance to get some spiritual bonding. In the past Whenever i was dropping I would do pooja and chaityavandan vidhi while Jash used to be in pathshala. But lately haven’t been able to do so, there is always that urge to get somethings done while I am in milpitas.
So to add to your list Prashant,
1. Do Pooja & ChaityaVandan vidhi
2. Do few navkarwali’s if not listen to the session (some KV folks do this as well)
I was wondering if we can do some group excercise in park (small green area) which is on other side of road between derashar & new india bazar.
We could always meet at our garage but was wondering if somebody can lead & we can do something in then park then folks doesn’t have to go thro’ parking maze multiple times.