India 2009!

Oh my goodness! It’s been over a week since our last blog post. I’m sorry that Katie and I fell off the face of the Earth, but there has just been so much going on this week. Every night we had to sit and just digest all the events of the day in our own heads. So I’m going to catch you up on the past week!

Saturday was our day off. We slept in and then went on an adventure to Big Bazaar to buy more food and other things we had run out off. It was an awesome trip because it was the first time that we were going somewhere slightly far away all by ourselves…with no one to translate for us. We got lost a few times on our way home, but the Hindi direction words came in handy again! While we were at Big Bazaar we managed to find a map of the world! We have been looking for one everywhere because we really want to teach the children about the world around them. It’s an amazing map with pictures of all types of landmarks (like the Taj Mahal and the Statue of Liberty!). We also bought a broom to sweep up all the dust that has taken over our apartment. It was quite a rickshaw ride home trying to carry 20 rolls of toilet paper, 6 containers of juice, tons of food, a map, and a broom. Luckily the rickshaw driver just laughed and asked us where we needed to go! Later that day we went over to Sachindra’s house for a little and then just took some time to reflect and think about what we want to focus on during the next week with SOUP.