So far, so good!

At the school on Monday

Sorry we haven't updated in a while. I tried uploading a bunch of pictures yesterday, but the internet is so slow here that it takes 5 minutes to upload one. I will work on that later to get to up.

Monday:

Today we got up and had our first Indian Breakfast. We ate at the restaurant at the hotel called Pickles. There was an omelet bar, American pancakes (that tasted like cake), cold cereal, fresh fruit, Indian pancakes, chutney and donuts. After breakfast we left to go to a school that is associated with a church that our friend Ebenezer attends. There were 300 kids from ages 2 1/2 to 15 1/2. They were all so excited to see us and have there pictures taken. Everything went well, it was a little windy out which made it difficult to keep the stage from blowing away ( it is so light). We did our puppet show and dowel rod performance ( the one from Easter) then after that the kids went back to their classrooms, we then had tea and biscuits (cookies) with the pastor of the church. Before we left we prayed with the pastor for the church and school and went on our way back to our hotel. When we arrived back to our hotel we all had lunch at Pickles, buffet style. After lunch we met in Brad Uncle's room and talked about how things went that morning. It came to our attention that some of the things that we were trying to teach the children that were a little too complex , so we had to make some changes. We also went to Youth For Christ (YFC) and met some very nice people there. They taught us two songs that some of the Indian kids know, that way when we sing with them, they can catch on faster and have more fun. We were at YFC for about an hour and then rushed back to our hotel to grab more water and then to head out again to Pastor Alvin's home/church. As we got there, we had to take off our shoes before going into the house. We had all talked about this, but this was the first time that we actually had to do it. Pastor Alvin and his wife, Hannah told us about there ministry as kids from an orphanage came that they help out with. We then performed for them, doing puppets, songs and the dowel rods. We messed up quite a bit because we were all very tired, and it was our first day of performing. We were a little nervous because we had to make so many changes to our performance to allow the children to understand our message. The kids still enjoyed the show :) Next we taught then how to play 'Head's up 7 up' which they had fun with. Dinner was next which consisted of white rice, lamb curry and vegetable stew type dish. We all sat on the floor 'indian style' and ate with our hands. Very fun!! Dessert was then served; it was a small round orange ball, with the consistency of tapioca. It was sweet and very good! Dinner was cleaned up and the kids sang a couple of songs for us....we took some pictures and said our goodbyes. It was a very good first real day in India.

I will post about Tuesday ( today, tomorrow (wednesday). Please continue to keep us in your prayers!