Almost done

Hey guys,
Hope all is well in the U.S :) Things are alright here-finally warming up! yay! We're supposed to get a few more volunteers today, which is cool. And we have rice again! double yay. And i walked to Mocha all alone today-first time walking somewhere in India alone. I feel very grown up :)
Yesterday we went to Jaipur Hospital, which is bigger than the dinky one we take Dolat to for his burn, and we talked to a doctor about women's health. it was interesting to say the least :) they have good intentions, but some of the things they say are so odd! Like we were talking about contraception and the hospitals tell women to fill up condoms with water or blow them up and squeeze them a bit to make sure there are no holes! Obviously, that is just not good advice at all. She believed we should load up trucks with women and force them to come to hospitals and get sterilized haha. We talked to her about Galupsha, the 11 year old who gets raped almost daily, and the 15 yr old girl with an abusive husband and prego with her 2nd child. Both of these things are illegal, but if anyone says anything then we will all be banned from the community. They don't want negative attention drawn to them. Also, the police are apart of a mafia you can't go to them anyways. It's just so frustrating! Dolat's mother too. Her 12 year old son beats her up too, because he's always watched his father doing it. And i may sound like a broken record, but what the heck happened to Aja and Nayna?!
i may not be able to do anything personally, but God can. He can do anything. Aja and Nayna have been constantly on my mind, and I've decided that i'm going to fast on Saturday for breakfast and lunch. Feel free to join me in praying for these 2 young girls who have disappeared to be returned home safe and healthy. God can do infinitely more than we could ever ask or imagine. He takes care of the weak. I am claiming God's word over these girls and I believe He is doing something about it.
Today at school (finally we got to go back! haven't taught since wednesday) when we got there Bharthi hugged a couple of the boys. I had never actually just hugged them unless i was comforting a hurt or crying child because i didn't know if it was acceptable. they have wierd rules here haha. i had never seen a child be hugged here and i wasn't sure why. But after Bharthi did that, i hugged them too. And then it was like this huge hug fest because the kids crowded around us, wanting to be hugged too. it was one of those things that's so sweet you want to cry. And Arjun, the naughtiest, most messed up little boy, was grinning all day and just a honey! He was trying to learn how to write his letters and everything. Of course, Satan has to try and screw things up. this older boy we'd never seen before came in and he was trying to cut the kids with this dull rusty blade he had. Poor Dolat must have almost gotten cut because he was sitting next to the kid and he started balling and he wouldn't stop for a long time, even though he didn't actually get cut. We kept kicking him out of the school but he just came back, randomly hitting the other kids. Argh. Well, he didn't win.
After school, I started a big art project I've wanted to do. It came to me in a dream about a year or so ago. I actually would call it a vision because i was awake but dreaming while i had it and it's coming true right now. I dreamed that I had painted a tree on a wall and it was really dusty and dry. And all these little children were putting their painted handprints on it as the leaves. So today i painted the tree trunk and wrote "the Beautiful Children of India" next to it. It gathered quite a crowd! But i feel so good-like this is the perfect way to wind down after my trip. God is here. I don't think i could ever doubt that again.