Week Three and were still alive! :)

Greetings to My Family and Friends and Gods Blessings!

Three weeks! Sometimes it feels like three months and other times like three days. Its so fun getting to teach these kids. We've really made friends with the ones that come regularly now. We started with thirty and now around twenty come on a regular basis! School go's from 8 to 12 so we have one hour periods. During the second or third period we play games in this big grass field, we taught them ultimate frezbie and they love it. Some times we'll play catch with tennis balls or when were tired or its to hot to play we sit in the shade and talk, laugh and the other day we brought out Barak's picture book that Alison made for him and showed them pictures. It was really cute, they all wanted to see the picture of Alison and one of the boys, his name his Sikander, wanted a picture of Barak & Alison, so the other kids started teasing him and were telling Barak that Sikander was going to take his girlfriend, it was really funny!

Saturday's are site seeing days. But we didn't get a lot of site seeing in this Saturday, because we stayed late at school and were messing with the new sound equipment Barak bought for the school. It was really fun we were the only ones there, so we set it up in the outdoor lobby area and it echoed throught the whole school with the granite and marble floors. And then were up late grading tests that we had the students take. It was hilarious. We told the students that there was going to be a test on friday and of course half of them forgot. So Friday rolls around and all the kids are stressing out and telling us they should take the test on Monday. But like cruel teachers we said no. It was really sad! Ok, so we got up late around 8, we usally arise around 5:30. We hung out at our flat and worked on some stuff for the following school week. We headed off to the school around 11:30 and ate lunch with the office staff Bency, Naynna, and Nesa who are our usual lunch companions. 2:30 we headed of on our adventure to visit India's largest Mosque and pick up some music stands for the guitars from the music store. The mosque was pretty amazing. Its extior is sqaure and on all sides there is shaded areas and on the east side is the place of prayer, which is the largest covered place you can walk. The center is a large stone courtyard with a pool in the center to wash you feet. On the eastern faceing wall in the corners are two very tall towers which you can go in. there really intense. it was very narrow inside and it winds around and around and around; there was no steel or cement used to build them only stone and they've been there for hundreds of years. You can not wear shoes inside, the only problem with this is its 110 outside and i was wearing sandals. But for your convince they have skinny mats that stretch to diffrent areas so you can walk. My feet are gonna be pretty tough by the time i come home! We then finished off the day with picking up the guitar stands.

My Health as been fairly good i only suffered a minor cold and stomach issues on Wensday lets just say it wasn't fun, so i stayed home and slept all day. Besides being extremely tired were doing awesome, its continuing to be a blessing being here and continued thanks for all you prayers, support and encouragment!!! I miss you all a lot! And i'll give more updates in about a week.

I'd love to hear from you too, you gotta keep me updated too!! :)


With Love in Christ,
William H. Davis II