I'm at church, so I have wifi!!! The wifi tower on campus is still broken and apparently will take months to fix. So blogging will only happen on Sundays.

It's been a wonderful week in India!!! The campus is beautiful!!! The volunteer house is a beautiful courtyard house. It is very humid, but quite breezy and luckily, there is AC in our bedrooms. Mango groves cover the campus, but we are only allowed to eat the ones on the ground, and the kids usually get to them first.

I go through three rotations during the week: medical, construction, and education. At medical, I cut bandages for the leprosy patients. Actually, there was a death in the colony we went to, so I only cut one bandage out of the four patients that came. At construction this week, we dug big holes for septic tanks and latrines in the leprosy colonies with "shovels". At education, I sung songs with little kindergarteners- the cutest!!! I also help them learn the alphabet which is so satisfying when they grasp it!!! I helped two kindergarteners use the computer for the first time ever! Specifically, one little girl, Kavya, was using Paint her first time on the computer and every time she would fill a section of her picture with color, she would turn to me, gasp, and put her hand over her mouth. Almost like it was scandalous or something. Absolutely adorable!!!!!! 

On education rotation, I eat lunch at the dining hall with all the kids. Apparently there is an art to eating with your hands that I obviously don't understand, and the kids laugh and laugh at me. 

The volunteer coordinators are fabulous and  I have wonderful roommates! We get done with our rotations at around two everyday, and then we have a couple hours of playtime with the kids and eat dinner on the roof every night. We then have story time as the kids are in bed at the hostels.

We went to Mamallapuram yesterday. It's a beach town  with some ancient temple ruins. The ruins were beautiful and I swam in the Bay of Bengal! I, once again, spent way too much money, even with bartering. I had wonderful Chicken Tikka Masala and a chocolate crepe!!! 

We watched Frozen with all of the kids last night, their first time. All of the boys thought it was so boring! One little kindergartner, Miduna, was sick with fever and just slept in my lap the whole time.

I am sure you have already heard this about India, and it is no surprise, but yes, trash and poverty is everywhere. I really haven't been shocked by anything yet. I had heard so much, seen so many pictures and videos. Of course, actually being here is different than just looking at a picture, but no big shocks.

I'm having troubles posting photos, but they will be on Facebook and I'll keep trying to post them here! I hope all is well!!!