Hello Hello Hello from Rising Star!!
I'm super tired for some reason so I'm going to make this short.
I am so very glad to be here. I woke up this morning so excited. There was one point when we were getting a tour of campus that it just hit me that after all this waiting, I was finally here! I almost started crying, folks. So once again I would like to thank all of those who have helped me get here.
We all crammed on the Rising Star bus and went on a two hour drive to reach Rising Star! It is out in the boonies and the Indians here are a lot more conservative so we have to wear the traditional clothes all the time. When I say we, I mean all the volunteers. There are 16 of us. I was really excited to meet everyone because we're going to be sharing in this awesome experience together. And these fellow volunteers are awesome. Blessed to be with such an awesome group.
Today we met the kids! There are like 200 of them and they are so cute. They are also insane. It kinda reminds me of working at the daycare. They all ran up to us and kept asking "What's your name?", "When's your birthday?". I met so many kids today and I only remember like two names. One little girls name is Mary (well...something like that, but people call her Mary) so naturally, we bonded. After play time on the playground we had prayer time which we'll have every night. Kirsten and I are in a group and we go around to a different hostel every evening and say a prayer, sing a song, have a lesson, maybe play a game, sing more songs, and then have a closing prayer. It's a pretty cool experience because the kids are Hindu, Christian, Muslim, and they know we're Mormon. But all the religions are kinda mixed together so they LOVE Bible stories and Book of Mormon stories. And they pray in whatever language and religion they want. Cool.
At the end of the day we eat dinner and say a high point and a low point of the day. Today's high point was having that mini heart attack about actually coming to Rising Star and the low point was feeling sooooo tired.
P.S. It's kinda funny because they call all the female volunteers "auntie".
OK this post is kinda lame but that's all I got right now. I'll try to post every night from here on out.
P.S. We're having a blog race competition and I beat you Nery and Kirsten. SUCKAS!
I'm super tired for some reason so I'm going to make this short.
I am so very glad to be here. I woke up this morning so excited. There was one point when we were getting a tour of campus that it just hit me that after all this waiting, I was finally here! I almost started crying, folks. So once again I would like to thank all of those who have helped me get here.
We all crammed on the Rising Star bus and went on a two hour drive to reach Rising Star! It is out in the boonies and the Indians here are a lot more conservative so we have to wear the traditional clothes all the time. When I say we, I mean all the volunteers. There are 16 of us. I was really excited to meet everyone because we're going to be sharing in this awesome experience together. And these fellow volunteers are awesome. Blessed to be with such an awesome group.
Today we met the kids! There are like 200 of them and they are so cute. They are also insane. It kinda reminds me of working at the daycare. They all ran up to us and kept asking "What's your name?", "When's your birthday?". I met so many kids today and I only remember like two names. One little girls name is Mary (well...something like that, but people call her Mary) so naturally, we bonded. After play time on the playground we had prayer time which we'll have every night. Kirsten and I are in a group and we go around to a different hostel every evening and say a prayer, sing a song, have a lesson, maybe play a game, sing more songs, and then have a closing prayer. It's a pretty cool experience because the kids are Hindu, Christian, Muslim, and they know we're Mormon. But all the religions are kinda mixed together so they LOVE Bible stories and Book of Mormon stories. And they pray in whatever language and religion they want. Cool.
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At the end of the day we eat dinner and say a high point and a low point of the day. Today's high point was having that mini heart attack about actually coming to Rising Star and the low point was feeling sooooo tired.
P.S. It's kinda funny because they call all the female volunteers "auntie".
OK this post is kinda lame but that's all I got right now. I'll try to post every night from here on out.
P.S. We're having a blog race competition and I beat you Nery and Kirsten. SUCKAS!
I am also speechless right now (which is unusual.) I have tears in my eyes as I write this because I know what you and many others have sacrificed so you can be there Mary, my dear daughter! I am so proud to be your mom.
ReplyDeleteLove those kids to pieces!!!
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