Hogaya means finished
Friday was the last day of school, Praise Jesus. No more being unorganized, waking up at 6 in the morning by the buses, or having to control 35 crazy kids that can not understand me. I am going to miss the kids that I worked the most with. I have peace about all the work that I did at school. I gave it ALL that I had.
I was excited to see the change in the kids. The kids loved learning about Moses and everytime I walked in they would start to scream, "Moses story!" Yash, one of my favorites, when I would ask about what they ate in the desert he would always shout out, "Manna, What is this?" I was excited about teaching them Old Testament, my favorite, and the students really got into it. One of the parents wrote...
Thank you for arousing the eagerness of writing and reading sprit in my daughters conscious.
I really feel that my mission that I set off for is complete. The students are excited about both Jesus and reading, the two loves of my life.
Now it is 3 hours a day of holiday homework before the boys go home. Last night, we all watched Little Rascals, the boys loved it. We plan to spend all of our time loving on the boys as we make our exit. Katie left on Sunday, but I will see her in Chicago and Kalana leaves on Wednesday. It is weird to see everyone go, since it feels like we just got here. The boys keep saying, Goodbye, even though we have not left. Sorry, boys you are stuck with us for another week.
The other morning I heard all this giggling coming from the neighbors when I got up to see what it was I saw the father plowing his field with a cow and his two daughters sitting on the plow laughing away. It was so cute. When in the states am I going to see that?
Even though it will be the hardest thing to leave this place I have peace in my heart about going home. I also know that I am going to struggle with reentry. Last night as I got a spoonful of way too salty potatoes, I realized how comfortable it is at home. If I do not like something at home to eat, I can go to our huge fridge and pick something else out, or hop in the car and get anything my heart desire. I want to bring simplicity of India home. I want to not always fuss over everything and depend on Jesus for comfort, not food or friends.
27. All the boys dressed up and were not crabby about it.
26. It was a beautiful day.
25. The Tooth Fairy came. " I do believe in Fairies I do, I do."
24. I had 3 parties.
23. I made a three layer cake.
22. My best friend was with me.
21. I wore the coolest wedding bindis in the world.
20. We had a parade.
19. Billy Bob teeth.
18. Girls were able to dress up like princesses.
17. Boys were able to dress up like their favorite superhero.
16. We all watched Planet 51 together.
15. Everyone got a huge plate of chowmein.
14. We served three colors of Jello.
13. I had amazing cold coffee, very rare, but amazing on a warm day.
12. The boys made me so many cards.
Miraj wrote, "you help us in H W (homework)
you help us in stuies (studies)
you are faithful
you are kind"
11. The kids at school also made cards. ( they need a little help in writing)
you are my Best teacher I like you very much
you tell us good thing and about God How give us live to home and life thank you to God and Jesus to Help the poor people tearcher plese pray to God for me and us. Thank you Nandi
10. We had a huge fruit salad.
9. It cost me $ 20 to feed 60 people dinner and lunch. (You can not do that in the states.)
8. Nanda was super nice. Instead of kicking me out of te room he said that I could stay because it was my birthday.
7. Friday night when I went for dinner the boys had covered the whole porch with chalk that said "Happy Birthday, Kelly Mam." There was also drawings of my cat.
6. It rained so the mountains were beautiful and the weather was perfect.
5. I wore a crown for two days!
4. All the girls got ready together. My favorite part is running up stairs and downstairs sharing make up clothes, pulling random things together to make costumes. We are not working with much here.
3. I am older, wiser, a Christian, well traveled, but feel the same as I did for my 22nd Birthday.
2. I get to have another party with my friends and family when I get home.
1. Shubaum, the boy that I am probally the closest too, dressed up like Wolverine. We had been having problems the last week with him being nasty to me. One afternoon he said that he hated all the volunteers, hated our cakes, wanted us to go home, and was not going to make me a card. He was SO mad that when I was teasing him and hugged him, he burst into tears. BUT, even though he is very shy he wore no shirt and was MY favorite super hero. He truly is the love of my life!!!!!!! I will miss him more than he will ever imagine, but I was able to spend this birthday with him again.
Ashutosh, so cute, said the other day to Kara,He is so precious.
Unfortunately. he comes from a really bad situation at home. His father is a Hindu priest and he has the Fairy Tale horrible step mother that beats him. He really did not want to go home last year and has mentioned before that he rather stay at the farm as the other boys go to their homes for two weeks. We talked to the leadership and they said that was a possibility. The boys are so blessed to have this safe haven here.
Please Pray that his father will let him stay and does not take him away, as that is a possibility.
Also pray that all the boys are protected when they go home and they ALL return. Two to Three boys will not return every summer. Please Pray against this, they have so many opportunities to do something with teir lives, as long as, they stay here.
Watch out Thapa's gotta stick
the "Eiffel Tower"
my girls in 4th class
Can Ajay be an cuter?Last week was so busy. During the past 6 weeks of the summer session we have been doing more "hands on" work. We had a History Fair the first part of the session. Then last week we had a Geography Fair. My 4th class worked on Iran. It was really cool to learn about Iran, and I really want to go. The architecture is amazing. I had the class make a huge mosaic of a city and we worked on Persian Rugs. It turned out really cool, but was a lot of work. Amanda’s group did Mexico, Katie’s class did Japan, and Kara’s class did France. The Eiffle Tower turned out to look like a rocket, very Indian. Kara said that she had nothing to do with it.
Mexico 
All the Birthday Girls 
