Already Part of the Family.

In the morning I could barely get out of my cocoon of warmth, the only thing that made me was the prospect of food.  I didn’t bother with a shower because I couldn’t stand to take my clothes off.  I went down for breakfast and sat on the floor again but the kids had already gone off to school so I didn’t get to see them in the morning. 

After breakfast I went back into my room and curled up in a ball on my bed and did nothing.  It wasn’t until Sooja came knocking on my door to hangout; she is graduated now and just helps around the ashram.  I brought my phone and we went into another girl’s room named Kavita who is in her last year but they stay at home and study there instead of at school.  We sprawled out onto the two beds that were pushed together and watched Indy music videos… some of the guys were soo gorgeous and we all sighed when they took their shirt off or something. 

Before the little kids came home I grabbed my laptop and started showing Sooja and Kavita my photos.  When the younger girls came home they all cuddled up next to me and buried their faces into my computer screen.  When I opened up the Photobooth app they all got excited to take photos and even more excited when I started changing the settings to make their faces distorted; they were screaming with laughter. 

Eventually everyone came home and it was study time so I put my toys away and did my best to help the kids with work.  Anchula (don’t know how to spell her name but that’s how they say it) a nine year-old girl needed help with math so I sat down with her and we did all her numbers.  We counted by 2’s, 10’s, 5’s and other things like this until we were all done and it was finally play time!  I had already managed to make a best friend out of 5 year-old Sita who takes me everywhere.  I didn’t play with the kids today but walked up and down the driveway with Kavita and had Sita on my shoulders while we did walked.  Nobody here likes the cold and everyone is bundled up even if it isn’t as cold as they think it is.  The only ones who manage to say warm and the kids cause they are always running around playing.

Blacky the puppy.

The girls and Aadi

Deepak

Sita 

She loves taking photos of me

Kavita is on the left

Signs of spring I think

Story time...

Soon it was time for Arati Prayer and all the girls shuffled onto one side and the boys to the other.  I didn’t go to prayer tonight, instead I went to my room to blog as much as I could, which wasn’t enough because it wasn’t long before the dinner bell rang and I was downstairs for dinner.  Not soon enough though because all the kids that arrived first got the last of the rice.  Everyone made a mess on the floor like usual, it is never a dull time in the kitchen room.  When food was done I got my hot milk and stood outside playing with Blacky and talking to one of the older boys here, he was very interested about Canada and the differences… I couldn’t stop playing with the puppy.  Soon it got late enough that I said goodnight and went to bed.

I could still see my breath and my toes couldn’t heat up… probably didn’t help I wasn’t wearing socks.