Half way mark on the trip!

So we have hit the half way mark and let me tell you it has gone by really fast! It does not even feel like we have been here for 4 weeks. We only have about 3 weeks left of working with the people of India till we have a week of travling and staying in hotels while we go and do some sight seeing it should be lots of fun! So we just got back from the village last night and it was our last trip that we are going on but i must say that it was also the best one we have gone on. The kids are finally comfortable with us and are more talkative and it was so much getting to play games with them and intruduce them to bubbles and crayons and coloring books. They had a ton of fun with it. I got to see sooshma again and it does not get any easier seeing her. Once again i saw her beaten on over and over again! I finally got enough hindi down to tell the kids No! This is bad. The first day we were in the village she came up to me and pointed to a huge gash in her head that was totally infected, it felt so good getting to have a nurse on our team clean it all up and give her some meds to make it better. It beccame very clear to me that this little girl is shown very little love when I picked her up to take her to go play with the kids and us and she would not let me put her down for an hour! and when she was put down she would run twords me and give me huge hugs. This little girl is always going to be my in my heart! We also brought with us a bunch of hena and did the Hena on all the girls and then they did it to us! Along with Nail polish. It was so cool seeing them laugh and have fun. I am so excited for the next three weeks!