Every night I seem to sleep longer. I can't decide if this awesome fact is because I'm getting used to the sound of the air conditioning going on and off all night and now I just tune it out or if because we are worked so hard I sleep heavier. Either way it's awesome! I put my camera back together to see if it would work...it kinda did!!! But it won't recognize my memory card so I can't take pictures :( Very sad. But a girl in my team is sharing hers with me, so I got lucky! Also, I went into the kitchen to find that pretty much all my cereal had been eaten. And then there was this HUGE spider in our room. Pretty sure I've never seen one in person so big in my entire life!!! But we decided to close our bags and leave it to the family of geckos that live behind the air conditioner. Not sure how I feel about it...who knows what happened while we were gone.. So i started my day a little bit down. Team Scorpion left for construction work at 830 AM and arrived in the Bhatharapuram (Batrapuram) colony around 9. Victor, the guy who tells us what exactly needs to be done wasn't there so we had the rare opportunity to go explore the village before we set to work. Natalie and I meandered over to the art school. It is incredible! The leprosy patients have completely unveiled their talents! Some of them complete their beautiful work all with the use of hands with no fingers or even their feet or mouths. The Paintings can be bought for $45 so I'm planning on taking home two! I almost want to make an open offer to get a painting to anyone who somehow gets the money to my mother for her to put into my account...I'll think about it and you think about if you'd be interested. I know it would be really beneficial to the colony.
The paintings cheered me up so much...then we found out what we would be doing for the next however long it took us. A pile of roofing sat waiting to be moved. Imagine the thin metal roofing that is wavy like Lays ruffles chips. You know the kind. But they were thick and made out of cement. We had to move those from the community center to all over the colony. The roofing shingles were large and awkward to carry. That was a definite downer. It was grueling work. Luckily we finished early so we had time to stop at the carpenter's to hold the snake he caught earlier!
Then we stopped at the ATM and to exchange money for Delhi and a trip to the more. store!!! YAY! I nourished myself with chocolate and coke ;) yummy! We came home to even more critters. Three baby Indian squirrels were found living in the electric box. Kylie, who is already taking care or a baby mouse that the boys found last week jumped at the opportunity for more. They are super cute but I'm kinda sketched to touch them because of diseases even though everyone says they are too young to have any. All I could think about all day was play time! I felt awful for sleeping through it yesterday and I hoped the super cute little boys would still want to play soccer with me. I found Michael right when I arrived at the playground. He said he had something for me. He had drawn an awesome picture of a dragon for me. And also made me a little paper box and a cool little flying paper boat. Then it was soccer time! We played the whole time and more boys kept joining. I met a few new friends. Ahjay, Sebastian, Shantabdhi, Rabhakshim, and a few others I can't remember their names as you can imagine why. A couple older boys joined later on saying "Aunty, Aunty we are better, try to score!" My team of little ones kept the score pretty even until the older ones picked it up a little. "Las' goal wins!" Then I scored. "No Aunty, no goal, you cheat. Now las' goal wins." Well the older boys ended up winning but we scheduled a rematch for tomorrow. Every time I don't do perfectly well I hear "ahhw Aunty no! Do better." It is the cutest thing ever. After the game I piggy backed Michael to go get a drink and he laughed so hard when I spilled water all over myself. But, TII (this is India) what do ou do? embrace and cherish the cool water while you can haha it's great.
After talking at dinner getting me all excited for medical tomorrow we went over to the children's hostel for family time. Today we took pictures as usual and played cards. I know most of the girls names now which is totally awesome! They are all so cute and have so much love! I love them all back! I love India!
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