Good Friday, Good day in India

I'm having an amazing day and wanted to share it. Katie and I stayed up till three chatting about God, what to do next, boys, food, our boys. Mina played with my hair for a good hour (favorite thing). I woke up for an amazing french toast breakfast (not a big fan of French toast but today it was one of the best things I've ever had) made for us by a couple of the young teen boys from a visiting group. We had more talking. It's still surprising to me how instantly I am drawn to someone who speaks English and is from the West. I just want to sit and talk to them forever. It was nice to have "mommy chats" (which is where i can just tell them everything happening in my life and my heart and what I am dreaming and thinking about). Poor Frieda gets so many of my mommy chats she thinks I'm crazy. I even got in a couple "daddy chats" with some of the men. I just crave being with parents. One of the guys family is from Hawaii and he's Japanese and his name is Pono. And I loved getting to talk to him. Any connection to Hawaii just makes my day. I miss it. Then I sat on the roof and wrote in my journal, I started to pretend to be artistic and painted. Which is so much fun! I am having lots of fun pretending to be able to draw! Then went to the Good friday "service". Where we sang alot of my favorite songs and I had a great worship time, which I don't normally feel here so that was awesome! A few of the boys from the visiting group are hip hop dancers and so Katie and I went to watch them teach the boys a hip hop dance. They were impressive and our boys are just so cute. words don't do them justice.

We were all hot and sticky so we put on our swim clothes told the boys to come join us and went swimming. After a few minutes our boys came running up and stripping down to their panties (...ummm boy version of panties?) jumped in. I love swimming with 15 loud, laughing, funny boys. I swallowed lots and lots of pool water thanks to many dunkings and water fights. The boys picked right back up where we had left off, me flipping them and them grabbing my legs and dunking me. We kept score and I won. We did races and diving and "Superman" jumping and throwing. I loved it. I have that after pool feeling in my belly, where I just know my body is disgusted with the nasty green water that got forced into it. but it's so worth it! I missed playing in the pool with the boys so much! 

After playing for a couple hours took a cold shower (which is not so miserable when you're already wet). Chatted with Nibha and watched an Office episode. and now I am going to be getting ready for a Mac and Cheese and chocolate and henna date night with Katie.......my life is good. really good. (Nacho is like all I can think of right now. Poor Katie has never seen it and i quote it all the time.)