Children Bring Me Smiles

The hotel that we had been staying at is one of the nicest hotels that I have been to before.

This was the complimentary breakfast place. Fantastic service and every kind of food you can imagine. Lots of delicious Indian food that we tried. Dosa, (is my new favorite Indian food) which is similar to a crepe/thin pancake is paired with lots of different dips that are savory and delicious! 

When they came and picked us up to go to the campus, they gave all of us Jasmine flowers to put in out hair.

(Me, Kailyn, Austyn, Kaylee) 

We had a two hour bus ride from our hotel to the campus outside the town. 

(Austyn, Kaylee) 

We finally made it to the campus! 

Here is the courtyard of where we live for the next three weeks. It's called the Elephant House! 

I live in the coconut room!!! So fun. 

This is the school for the kids, where we will be when we are tutoring. 

First day of wearing Chudidars! So comfy and very different than anything we normally wear!  

We got to go out, meet and play with the kids during their playtime soon after we got there! It was so fun to meet all of them and play around 

This is Jonathan. He told me to pose like this! They love cameras and any electronic equipment. They swarm you and beg to use your camera. 

This cute girl was something else. She was playing with my hair and pulling, I mean pulling so very hard on it. Not the most fun hair-do I have ever been given.

The cutest little boys. Sanjay (in the orange shorts) and Jonathan (on my back) were so adorable we played lots of soccer and they took some videos on my camera of just everything that was going on. 

Here is Kaylee with a cute frog we all found. Good thing we found out right after not to touch any animal. Oops! 

Sanjay was just following me around and making sure I was playing for the right team on soccer. We played a little game of tag, he offered me many mangoes and we had just lots of fun! 

Benson is the only guy in our session. He is having lots of fun with the kids, they get very excited about his beard and want to touch it! 

We have to use toilets that are on the floor! No explination. (Kaylee) 

So far it has been so wonderful. The children are so adorable and loving you can't help but be happy and excited the whole time you are with them. We have "family time" after dinner where we kind of help settle the children down in the families they are assigned to with a house mother. They just want to play and get all riled up. We had a lot of fun with that, and they like to play a lot of hand games and sing songs. One of the little girls kept bursting with laughter because it was funny that I didn't know all of the songs in Tamil. She was just pointing at me and laughing and rolling around on the floor. They know how to get what they want, because they just sit there and will beg you to stay just another minute just to see if you will. I am so excited for another day to go work on the construction site and then come back and play with them and have another fantastic day in India!