Hi!
I’ve been here for over three weeks now… tomorrow makes four weeks! It’s amazing how much I feel at home. I feel like I have been here for so much longer than three weeks but at the same time I still sometimes get hit with the fact that I am living in INDIA! I really love it here.
The school has been going okay… I like the little kids a lot, but it’s difficult because I can’t understand them! But it’s starting to get better; I’m finding my place. At the big school one little girl I work with is getting better. We spent almost a whole hour working on “can”, they all say ‘c’ says “sa”. So its “san” but by the end she was saying can! It was pretty exciting. We play this game with these wooden letters. I say the sound of the letter and they have to pick up the letter. One little boy can now get about half the alphabet! It’s exciting to see progress! For my “creative” class everyday is different. This class gives me the most headaches. Just because what I am supposed to do keeps changing! Right now it’s like do a story for 10-15 minutes and then go outside and let the kids play…we’ll see what happens this week!
I am loving the boys! They are all so crazy fun and loveable. One of the boys had been kinda mean and not interested in me but a couple days ago he decided he liked me! So now he’s all about holding my hand or sitting next to me. And he’s not prompting the other boys to be mean to me…Since he decided he likes me the boys haven’t even been mocking me. It’s a nice break! Yesterday we spent hours in the pool. It was so fun! The boy were ganging up on me and dunking me and wrestling in the water. It was really fun, but they are SO strong! I have a few bruises and my eye is pretty sore (it got kicked) and my back hurts! But they were super sweet, pretty often they would stop and ask me if I was okay or if I got hurt. At one point one of the boys was holding my legs and I was trying to push him under and another boy jumped on us and landed on my shoulder and the boy’s head and he came up asking if I was okay and if I had been hurt! They’re just sweet like that. This weekend and last few days has just been a lot of fun! The pool is my favorite thing. today the water was so green and dirty that i couldn't see my legs, or my hand! I only stayed in for like 20 minutes cause I was scared of snakes. They have found a snake since I've been here and in water that green I wouldn't have been able to see it coming. Plus I was alone; if the boys were with me I would have probably swam longer! We have so much fun and I love being in the water! The boys are all very interested in Hawai’i and sharks and dolphins and crabs and surfing and the ocean. I wish I could take them for a week trip!
This weekend is a FOUR day weekend and it’s the volunteers off weekend so we are going to WALK up the mountain to this town. We’ll have hot water and pizza and I’m really excited!
And in two weeks-ish we are going on a trek! I know, me a trek? But it will be awesome! We’re going in the Himalyas, it will be a 5 day trek (most likely, but possibly 4). From 4,000 to 10,000 feet! I am really excited but a little nervous too! We had a “meeting” today and Ashare told us about the food, what to expect, what to bring…I am seriously so excited! I’m a little nervous, the pack will be about 50 lbs and on three of the days it will be like walking for almost all day! It will end up being about 56k. I think I could totally be remembering wrong though.
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