November 16

We spent today writing lots of goodbye cards for every kid. We have their name drawn on the front, a long message inside, with lots of stickers and decorations, and our addresses and emails on the back. We can't wait to give them all their gifts and cards tomorrow! Four kids were home sick from school today with fevers and went to the hospital to get medicine this morning. We both wrote long messages in the guest book today too, it was so difficult to sum up our 8 weeks here in a page! Countless memories and laughs, so many experiences that will stay with me for life.

When the kids came home, we sat in the hall while it rained outside. We all huddled under the overhang, playing music and chess. I played M+M and Muruganadam in chess, and won with the help of our little chess master Antony. Alagarsamy DJed, playing his favorite songs over and over again! It was really beautiful, listening to all the children sing as the rain poured down and we played games and sat all together as the music played. Our chicken friend ran around in the rain.

After prayer, we had our last English lesson with the boys. Kelsey took the five boys in grade 6 and down, and Paige took the six older boys. We wrote out spellings of names of animals that were on the stickers we had put on a sheet from them. We sounded out words to figure out proper spelling with the little boys. The older boys had to spell all the different animals and we made different sentences for them after. They are at really different levels, but as I was correcting grammar and discussing with them, you could see an improvement in their sentence structures. Yaay! We then had a test and all the kids kept their papers with stickers and animals spelled differently. It was a fun last English lesson with the boys!