Frogs Set Free

Today was great!  We were on construction again, so we were off to the leper colony.  We made one more septic tank with those huge cement rings again, and finished up a couple others.  But we noticed at the bottom of one of the septic tanks there were a couple frogs.  Us, being the kind-hearted people we are, felt bad for them and wanted to get them out.  I volunteered myself to go in and rescue them.  So I hopped into the 6 foot deep hole, and set to work trying to catch the frogs and put them outside the tank.  What I thought would be quick, was not so quick.  From above we saw about 3 frogs... from inside I could see about 20.  And most of them were resistant to being caught.  So after getting about 8 out, and struggling in vain to get more... I climbed back out.  May the remainder of the frogs rest in peace.  We then set to work filling in around the edges of another tank.  See, a round septic tank in a square hole isn't a perfect fit... so we had to scoop dirt back in around the sides.  This was a pretty time consuming, sweaty, exhausting project... but so much fun.  In India, they even have different shovels...  Afterwards we went to the Bindu School of Art in the colony where people, including the leprosy-affected, paint pictures and then the money from it goes to the artist, the school, and the old folks home they have there.  It's cool, because it's just one way the leprosy patients can become self-sufficient.

At family time, I was asked by one of the kids, Enokelee, to swing him by his hands and feet, and then everyone wanted to... it gets pretty exhausting... but again, so much fun!  I played connect four, cards, and Gokulraj wanted me to tell a story before I left.  I've done this for the past night or two, but couldn't think of any, so he told me one about Danny the Dragon.  When I went outside to head back, there was another game of net-less volleyball going.  That's the great thing about India... they don't need nets for anything.  I got asked to play... it was so great.  Maybe it's that I'm in India, maybe it's because I'm loving these kids more and more, or maybe it's both.

This is the Bindu school of Art.  Not super fancy, but nicer than a lot of places I've seen in India.

The kids were playing a game where one person drove the car, and the rest were laying down and had to roll around to dodge it.  They wanted me to take this picture.

Basically with 'India' volleyball... you just have to decide the middle, and the back boundaries and then just play!  Super easy and lots of fun!