india post seven.

my heart is so full right now.

i think today was the best day i've had here so far.

teaching today was so much better than yesterday. both of these days, we've had the first and second class boys. so today we taught english (or tried our best) to 25 squirming, silly 6, 7 and 8 year old boys and a handful of girls.

it was something else. you really just have to watch a video of it, i can't really explain what it's like.

but it's all the little things. it is ENTIRELY the little things that make my heart turn in my chest, that make me so happy i can hardly contain myself while i'm here. i am IN LOVE with these kids. even when they are being obnoxious or clingy or pushy. i love them.

today, one of the little things was catching bugs in a waterbottle with kusha (the little boy i posted a photo of, who is holding my hand) gopi (one of the boys i wrote about in an earlier blog), another little boy named ajay and a handful of other boys close to their age...six or seven. we caught a spider, a fly, a small beetle, and two ants. and then kusha emptied the bottle out in the dirt and that was the end of that.

another little thing, that seems to happen all the time, is touch. touch says so much about a child's comfort level with you. and it's interesting, because some kids who barely talked to me in the last few years are suddenly gravitating toward me...and i can see it by how close they get to me. after dinner, i walked down the hallway to go back to my room. i stopped where a line of boys (the first and second class kids i taught today, and then some of the third class boys) was sitting outside the kitchen tonight, waiting for a "tablet" they all needed to take. a lot of the time, i'll just go and stand there. i stand there and watch them. i'll ask general questions, but i kind of just stand there and wait to see what will happen. and one of the first things that happened was kusha ran up and stood with his back against my legs and grabbed my hands and held them in front of him. i LOVE that. i LOVE stuff like that. these kids have no idea how special that makes me feel. it's a humbling feeling.

so now you have some insight into what makes my heart overflow. i even felt silly typing those things out. they say the best things in life are free, and i think i can heartily agree with that statement.

i can't even explain how blessed i feel to be with these children. my time with them is golden. my heart already hurts when i think about us having to leave in mid august. and we aren't even halfway there yet.