Indian teachers

At the moment the noise coming in our window is prayer at one of the temples, they pray each day but normally at night, and the times change depending on the moon. It sounds like chanting and some singing, there are also different men saying different things at the same time.   This morning we had our first day of being Indian teachers in a slum school. It was an amazing experience, and i am excited for the months to come and to see the improvement in the kids. It was hard because of the language barrier, but as time goes on hopefully it will become easier. There was about 20 kids today, but not all of them were there. We split them into two groups, kate had the older ones and i was with the younger ones. We worked on the alphabet and numbers, all of the kids are good at writing the words or numbers, but when it comes to talking they have difficulty. After a while we brought the kids together and worked on conversational english, that was where we had a hard time. But today after we got home Kate and I sat for a couple hours and learnt hindi, we now know the basic words and hopefully will be able to communicate better tomorrow. We will be staying in this school monday, tuesday, and friday and then on the other two days going to another slum school and working there. The kids were absolutely gorgeous, they were really shy today, but i am sure that will change time goes on. The thing that i really love about India is the passion the people here have, they give everything their all without holding back. You can see in all that they do that put their whole heart into it, it is an amazing thing to see. And something i am striving to achieve in my every day life. As Americans i think it is so easy to just do a job half heartedly and be ok with it and not think anything of it. I struggle with it, but i want to have the passion that these people have. Also God is so real here, at home it is easy to get caught up in life and not fully depend on God (atleast for me) but here for most people their relationship with God is all they really have, all they have to look forward to. And they live their lives for Him and for no one else.  This is a quote by John Wesley that the family we are staying with has up on their wall.   "Do all the good you can, By all the means you can, In all the ways you can, In all the places you can, At all the times you can, To all the people you can, As long as ever you can.” I think it sums up how the people are over here.  Oh and all the men here wear 70's style pants!!! It is so funny. Kate and I wished that all the men dressed like aladdin, but they don't :( oh well.