Author: Adventures

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 all, Hope you guys are doing well!! Right now we are in Goa, India working in a specific slum each day. There are many different things that are going on in this slum. First, there is a man who is starting up a clinic. It’s been open for about 2 weeks now so there is a lot that needs to be done to organize how it will be ran. The building that was available for the clinic is a small cement building, but there has been a lot of use out of it so far. Secondly, in the clinic, there is a nutrition program for the little kids and then for the women in the community. Here, many people...

I was looking out at the beautiful Arabian Sea literally 100 meters from where we are a majority of the day. And along the shore there walked a man and his little daughter.  The man kept trying to hold his daughter’s hand, but she refused to take it and walked a little ways away.  The father walked after her and when he got close, he offered her his hand again, and again the little girl refused to take it, and ran ahead.  The father stood and watched his daughter run ahead for a little while and then he followed after her and again tried to persuade his daughter to take...

All i’ve wanted since we got to India was to just get started working with the women and children of Goa. Finally a week after landing, we did! After taking two crowed, hot, and smelly buses, we arrived at the community where we’ll be working the next two months.   As soon as we set foot on the ground, we were surrounded by kids, running up to us with huge smiles and open hands shouting “good morning teacher, good morning teacher”. All wanting to shake your hand and give you hugs. They are so hungry for attention and love; there are never enough hugs, piggy...

It’s definitely a different culture, from women and men seeming to associate only when married or buying things to the beautiful jewelry for less than a dollar.  A few things have initially caught my eye: Their medians are made up of cows sun bathing in the road. Their food is very tasty. The women are unbelievably beautiful and kind. Washed clothes are impossible to dry during monsoon weather. Everything is colorful. We consider ourselves lucky when we find toilets with toilet paper (so yes, we bring our own; we will keep some things from our own culture :)), sometimes I...