Great Week!

Hello there everybody!
What a week! It's been a great week though. I went to the Rajmandir (sp?) theatre which is quite famous and saw a Bollywood surfer movie, Blue. it was hilarious :) and also intersting because they didn't kiss at all in the movie! instead, they did lots of awkward sex positions and all the women wore practically nothing. And the men were really stereotypical-the wrestled a shark, boxed, drove fast cars, drank beer, were rich, and had high speed races all in the first 15 minutes :) It's fun because the audience goes crazy during the movie. Also, the theatre was gorgeous!
Work has been great this week. I can't believe how fast i've adapted and learned how to teach a bunch of wild slum children who don't speak my language :) Also, I got a translator, and then another translator, and now another volunteer! I think IDEX must have noticed that my class has increased from about 17 kids to about 30 kids :) God is providing for me so much! Here i started the week completely alone, and by today i have 3 other people helping me and the children are learning so much! The couldn't even tell me what a letter was unless i asked in order, and today they were saying them with no problem. Also, the other volunteer who is with me, Bharthi, is half Indian and speaks fluent Hindi!!! AND she's a lot like me in the sense that she really wants to come up with creative ways to teach these kids, and she has a degree in teaching! I've been praying for a way to be able to use my ideas because before i couldn't explain them beacause of the language barrier, and now i have no language barrier and double the ideas because Bharthi has a bunch too! God is so good. I'm telling you guys-He really does provide and i'm not even kidding. He provides for me every single day and i feel like a broken record thanking Him all the time, but it's just SO COOL! :)
Also this week i made a couple steps in some ideas i've had. One is a class plant. Yesterday i was given a big clay pot and i decorated it :) I wrote "Always Keep Growing" on it, which is something my own 1st grade teacher wrote on a plant pot for me and i still have it. It feels kind of like a blessing sometimes-no matter what i'm always moving forward. I wish i knew where she was so i could tell her that little thing is being carried on in the slums of Jaipur, India! Also this week I got a box and i'm going to decorate that and it's going to be the class dust bin. I'm going to try teaching them about putting garbage in a separate place, even if once the dust bin gets filled there's nowhere to put it except in the fields :/ I can't control that part f the situation though, only the way my class handles its garbage.
The "jew"/zoo was really great this week also :) The children were SO happy and very well behaved. I was blown away! These children really are fabulous. They just happened to be born somewhere different from me. And actually i see it shaping them into the good children they are. God has a plan for them and their situation would only add more to it if they would choose to follow Him.
Today was sports day and all the children from the 3 schools came out to the field and we all played games. I taught them duck, duck, goose and it was a big hit :) even the IDEX executives wanted to play. IDEX is pretty unorganized and can be frustrating, but the complaints have really payed off. they are coming up with some really cool ideas for the schools. Like now we do fun things every week, like the zoo. and we wash the children's faces and cut their nails and comb their hair to teach them about hygiene. We're on the right track here :)
So yea...that's what's up in Jaipur, India. Have you guys seen the thing about the fire that was here? We could see that from our roof. And the 7 school children who got hit by a train? That was really sad. The crazy thing here is that whenever there's a train or car accident, a giant mob developes and riots break out. It gets really dangerous!
One of the children in my class who i've really gotten to like has a fever :/ he's pretty young. He never involves himself with the kids. he just sits on the wall next to me and usually he acts like he doesn't like me even though i know he does :) But when i first got here i noticed that he had a blister burn thing with a bunch of oozing yellow stuff on it. and it has continued to look like that. And now with the fever, Bharthi and i were wondering if maybe he has an infection? We're going to visit his mother and talk to her about it next week.
Well, i better go eat my veggies, rice, and chapatti. Talk to you guys later! Take care. Are you guys all staying healthy over there with the weather changes and stuff? I'm praying for you all!
Cassie