Monday, November 16, 2009

but she was so young


Over the weekend one of the girls in my class that I teach suddenly died. She was having stomach pain and her parents took her to the hospital. The first time the doctor said that she was going to be okay and the second time they said that nothing could be done. I told Ratan and Bhorot what had happened but they did not really believe me and are too young to understand. It was really hard tp be in the class today, because I was not sure what to say and her little friends were so upset. Bailey Mam was in pieces. She kept saying, "She was such a sweet girl, she never gave me any trouble." I read them a book about. What Happens When We Die, but I am not sure that they understood.


After school all the teachers went over to her house. We went into the mothers room. I have heard anyone cry like that, and I pray that I will never again will hear such a cry. Frieda had printed out a picture of the class from the beginning to the school. The mother was holding the picture and started to wail. It was so sad. She said that her daughter loved school and talked about the teacher and about me. I was only with the class for a little bit during the day, so I did not think that she would talk about me, but the mom said that she would. She wanted to be a doctor and spent a lot of time with the grandfather, "doctoring him up." My heart broke for this family. Please pray for this family and their son Shivam, who is in sixth grade, he just lost his only sister and everyone keeps telling him to be strong for his mother, but he is so young. And for the Bisht family.

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