Author: Adventures

Sometimes looking at the massive amounts of needs in India seems absolutely over whelming.  Seeing all the beggar children on the streets, working in the slum area and seeing how they live, driving by all the people with eyes void of hope, and all the garbage and filth everywhere you go, where do you even begin?  When I stand back and look at it all, it seems hopeless!  There’s no use even starting because there’s no way I can take care of it all. I can’t feed all the hungry children, I can’t build decent houses for everyone living in the slums, I...

 First of all, I apologize for taking so long to update a blog! It was not intentional, promise! 🙂 We have been in India for almost 2 months, and it honestly feels like home now. It’s weird to think of all the things that scared us, made us laugh, or totally shocked us about the things we saw. The insane-makes-no-sense traffic scared us, all of the cows, goats, dogs, and cats frolicking wherever they please made us laugh, and even though we knew well before we came that India had a lot of beggars and homeless, it still shocked us seeing it in person. We have become immune t...

This is the day in the life of delirium.  A typical conversation between Auds and Linds. p.s. I would reccomend listening to this with headphones. Lindsay likes to talk quiet 🙂

Freedom is a concept we so often take for granted as Americans; freedom to speak, freedom to express, freedom to believe.  So narrowly minded going through my days at home not appreciating how blessed I am to live in one nation under God.  As this idea is rapidly crumbling we as a nation will soon learn what it is like to “not know what you’ve got til it’s gone”, because whether we are willing to accept it or not these privileges are fading fast. From training camp we are taught to let go of all expectations, even as simple as a shower or...

Hello family and friends! Hope this update finds you well! My team just got back from Bangalore which is where we did our debrief and visited/helped out with a school there for a few days. Those kids call us “auntie” instead of “teacher” like in the slum. The school is a completely different atmosphere than in the slum, but God is definitely working in both!  Tonight the 6 of us girls watched Slumdog Millionaire and it was so fun! Seeing the little kids in it made me very happy that we get to go back to the slum that we missed being in so very much! This week...

Hello family and friends! Hope this update finds you well! My team just got back from Bangalore which is where we did our debrief and visited/helped out with a school there for a few days. Those kids call us “auntie” instead of “teacher” like in the slum. The school is a completely different atmosphere than in the slum, but God is definitely working in both!  Tonight the 6 of us girls watched Slumdog Millionaire and it was so fun! Seeing the little kids in it made me very happy that we get to go back to the slum that we missed being in so very much! This week...