Things have been great at the school this week! I started in on some of the plans that Sunita and I came up with for each student, and it has been good. Today we learned about the weather and different words that you can use to describe the weather like sunny, rainy, cloudy, windy, etc. It worked for most of the children and in the span of the day we experienced sun, clouds, wind, and rain, so the children could look out the windows at any moment and see exactly what we were talking about.
Yesterday I went to the cinema and saw my first Hindi movie with Laura and Jana. It was comic, and the plot line basically followed three college-aged guys who are roommates and how they accidentally got mixed up in a diamond smuggling ring. At one point in the film (to get the diamonds back from a jeweler they sold them to) they dressed in burquas and pretended to be Muslim women. Obviously, hilarity ensued. It's surprising how much we could understand with only a few English phrases here and there. The audience's reaction to the film is almost better than the film itself. Their cheering, hollering, and laughing were completely exaggerated and really funny.
John and Sunita decided to make every Thursday a day of prayer and fasting for a specific student, so we started today with their son Hayden. It's optional for the staff, and you could obviously just do it for half the day or the whole day. So instead of sitting with the children to eat lunch, John, Sunita, Ngaanba, Hema, and I sat in the office of the pre-vo school and prayed for Hayden's healing, for God to give him the ability to speak, and for the land conversion of the school as well. It's a wonderful idea, and I really enjoyed the time to spend in prayer. I'm looking forward to this being something we do every week.
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