First week in India!

Hey Everyone!

My week has been kind of hard but very good at the same time! It was really hard for me to adjust to how hot it is here. It gets up to 110 during the day and like in the lower 90's at night. Thank God that we have ceiling fans. We lose power every day at least once for 5-10 minutes or more, so then we are all dying cause the fans aren't working. 

We are living at the orphanage, which I already said in my last post i think. There is a team here from California who are helping us with the kids. The bottom picture is some of us at the park with the kids. I'll get individual pictures of each of the kids and post them so you can know their names. We do English lessons, drawing lessons or crafts, and we take them to the park to play at night. We also take shifts one day a week getting up at 6 and entertaining them till 7:30. 

We did this Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Saterday. Sunday we only had a half day because the American team took over after the kids naptime. Friday we went out to this really poor part of Delhi and went to this church where they feed street kids. We washed, dried, combed, and trimmed their hair. I was REALLY nervous about lice, and trust me when I say that every head there was full of them! Praise God no one from our team or the American's team got them. We all had hats or bandanas and all the girls had their hair up so that was good.

After we did the kids hair (by the way the top 3 pictures are from that church. Those are all the kids. I think there was probably close to 100 kids there), we fed them. Then we went back to a friend of Sasha's and had dinner ourselves. Sunday we went to City Mall in the evening. It is like Crossgates, it's HUGE!!!! They have all kinds of American stores, DKNY, MAC, Van Hausen, and lots more. They also have Subway and KFC!!!!!!!! I got KFC for dinner with Andrea and Yura. It was both their first times but they both loved it! I have to get the pics from Yura's camera of me and himm eating. They are great! Well, I have to go for now. I love and miss you all!! Namaste!!!

-Missy

$3.00 for lunch and dinner!

Hey all!

Well so far day 2 is going really well! Yesterday our team took the kids the park to play for a few hours. It was alot of fun. I'll post pictures later. All the kids call us Uncle and Auntie. It is SOOOOOOOOOOO CUTE!!!!!!!!!! I got up this morning at quarter to 6 because each morning one of us has to get up and quietly entertain the kids from 6-7:30.  Praise God for Youtube and Veggie Tales!!! They LOVED the videos. I think I probably watched close to every silly song with Larry. After we ate breakfast, we went over our plans for the day. Then we went to have worship/intercession in a nearby park. We got some VERY strange looks from the locals. They have a guitar here so I will be able to lead worship with Andrea. On our way home from the park, Yura and Andrea had to go to a market to get food for lunch and dinner. We went to this little market that was like and Indian version of Walmart :). Only difference was the sale signs, "Buy 2 get 7 free," or "buy 2 liters of Coca-Cola and get 1 kilogram of rice free." It was pretty strange for me. Anyway, the reason for the name of this post is that we spent $3 total buying enough food to make lunch and dinner. $3!!! I was in shock!!! Later after lunch, Yura, Andrea, and I will go to the market so Andrea and I can buy a Panjambi. This is traditional Indian outfit... a long dress-like shirt with a bright pattern on it, these pants that convert into shorts or a skirt depending on how you wear them, and a scarf for your shoulders. I want a Sari, but I just found out that all that is is a big piece of material wrapped around you to  make a skirt and a scarf over your shoulder with a shirt underneath. I don't think that that would be a good idea for me... I'd probably tie the skirt wrong and end up having it fall off or something. I don't wanna risk it :). Well I have to go. I'll update again tomorrow. Love and miss all of you. God bless!

-Missy 

Namaste from India!!!!!!!

Hi everyone!!! 

I'M IN INDIA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Namaste means "Hello" in Hindi. I thought that any Lost fans reading this would like to know that (CC). I left Simferopol Sunday night by train at 5pm. We arrived in Kyiv at 8:45 the next morning. We had a few hours wait in Kyiv before we had to be at the airport. For those of you who went on the Ukraine trip in '04, you might remember Igor. Well, I found him on Facebook and we had been chatting a little. He met our team at the train station and sat with us for awhile. We all got McDonalds and just chatted. Then we left for the airport at 1pm. We got there and sat for about 3 hours before we could board our plane. Our flight was great!! The movie was Prince Caspian, so I was happy to actually get a half decent movie for once. The food was plane food, no other real way to describe it... hahaha. Today I got to meet the orphans that we will be working with. As of right now there are 12 of them, but sometime soon there will be 9 more coming. They range in age from about 4-10, maybe? It's kind of hard to look at them and try to guess their ages. I got to teach English today. It was really fun!!! They have cards with different fruits and vegetables and the kids have to tell me what the thing is and what color it is. They are so enthusiastic!!! I got all into it  too. I think that today we have a down day  because we just got here. I kind of want to do something, so I'm gonna see if I can get in on what everyone is doing. Well, I really don't have too much else to write yet. I have wi-fi in our building but the time difference here is 9 hours. If you get on Skype around 1pm your time I should be on. Live and miss all of you very much!!!

God bless!!

-Missy

Greetings from Igor!!!