Author: Adventures

A few of us got the opportunity to go to Mumbai last weekend and after a 12 hour train, sight seeing at 4:30 a.m., and joining a senior citizen’s laughing club on the street , i was finally in the place i have been praying for. I came on this trip prepared to be with commercial sex workers in the red light districts. But for the past 6 weeks i have been a preschool teacher and have been hangin in the slums every day. When we began working in Mumbai, i was face to face with the human trafficking business just as i had hoped for. I was walking down a street full of women who were...

Disney may have told you that they have created the happiest place on earth but if they have convinced you that their clever combination of thrilling rides, classic characters, and life-changing attractions provides the most joy one could know, then you are surely brainwashed. I say this because there is a community of about 50 disabled people between the ages of 16 and 20 who have received a manifestation of the joy of the Lord in a most pure way. The fellowship they take part in is located in Dharavi, Mumbai which is the largest slum in Asia and is where Slumdog Millionaire was...

 Last weekend a little less than half of our group went to Mumbai. While there, we visited two organizations specifically for children of prostitutes. The first was run by The Salvation Army and was a home specifically for daughters of prostitutes. There were abotu 30 girls whose ages ranged from 3 to 12 or 13. Walking into the home, I immediately realized the harsh blandness. Grey concrete walls-an entrance that leads into the main room (where we played and had our story time) and three rooms branchin goff of the main room. The girls’ bedroom is the most joyful room-about...

  Last weekend some of my friends and I took a weekend trip to Mumbai. It started off with us missing our bus to the train station, a 12 hour train ride there, getting there at 4:30 in the morning going to the Gateway of India in the pitchblack, finding out we were standing in front of the Taja Hotel just as it started to pour down rain. With no place to go and nothing to do until 10, we decided to go into the hotel cafe and have a cup of chai, this was not what I was expecting on our weekend trip! After breakfast we joined the Indian laughing club as we passed them on...

There are pigs everywhere here and it has been my constant desire to catch one.   The other afternoon after we finished teaching preschool, my team and I were walking to lunch. As I focused on dodging traffic, one of my teammates ran into the middle of the road. And then I saw it: a tiny little black piglet caught in front of a city bus. She punched her fist to the sky and motioned at the bus to stop then squatted down to grab the pig. But the pig dashed off, going under the bus. She panicked and scooted back. So I ran forward without hesitation and scooped the little guy up....

When thinking about what to write my blog about this week, all that kept coming to mind was the absolutely ridiculous dreams I have been having recently.  In American, I don’t normally remember my dreams unless they are really strange, but for some reason my ones recently have been quite memorable.  But let me preface this blog by saying that my malaria pills do not have strange dreams as a side effect so do not blame it on that.   The first dream I remember having here was way back in Bangalore during the first week of our trip and it was about Wal-Mart.  I...