Fun in the sun

Hey Everyone,

Last night the girls had an interesting experience. As Preena was showering, she came across a massive cockroach on the wall next to her!! She screamed and ran out of the bathroom. The rest of the girls came running in to find out what happened. We all saw the huge cockroach. Chantalle was brave enough to take a shoe and kill it, while the rest of us were extremely scared. The cockroach lay dead on the bathroom. We were too terrified to pick it up, so Ms. Willis decided to cover it with toilet paper. Thankfully, this morning Mr. Medved came in to get rid of the cockroach for us. It was a horrifying experience and we’re definitely hoping we don’t find any other cockroaches in our house.

Today, we began our day with breakfast at the orphanage. The cooks made us some delicious French toast. Then we handed out roses, which we had bought in Ooty, to all the girls. The first part of the morning was spent with the girls and babies and a few people headed into town to by a DVD player for the younger boys. At around 11:30am, we headed over to the older boys’ house to watch an award show. There were many performances and a professor from a university also came in and told some jokes in Tamil. The kids thoroughly enjoyed it, yet unfortunately, we didn’t understand any of it. Part way through we had to go for lunch, but came back as soon as we could and witnessed the last part of the show. We saw the younger girls perform a dance. After the awards were handed out, we headed over to special care to hand out academic and sport achievements. Then we rested for a little while before having an afternoon full of sports. We took the younger boys out to the park to play cricket and soccer with the new equipment which we brought for them. The older boys joined us part way through and we played a huge game of soccer. Then, we had to take the boys back in time for their lessons. As a special treat, we handed out lollipops to all the boys, courtesy of the Tanna family. It was a big hit!!! After that we had dinner, and then spent the rest of the evening playing games with the girls. Today was definitely an amazing day!

Miss you all so much, but we are having an awesome time!!

-Preena and Tahira

p.s. Meesha: I’m a better bargainer than you, Mommy/Daddy: miss you so much too!!!!!
p.p.s meesh make sure mom/dad/bella are reading this...thanks!!