Life is a beautiful thing...

Well. Today. tons of stuff, of course. First we listened to some presentations, and then we headed out to visit the perur temple. Which was the most beautiful one I've seen so far. It was painted and colorful. And there was an elephant, (for those of you keeping track this was elephant encounter #3). Then we went over to see where some of Mahatma Gandhi's ashes are. That was not at all what I expected. I thought it would be more colorful and busy, I guess. It was not, but it was still a cool experience. We all know how much I love his quotes. Pictures of this later, you will see what I mean.

From there we went to speak with the president of a local village. He was a very nice man, who had served three terms. There we got henna done and he gave us each Gandhi's autobiography (I think it was the autobiography, I'll check that later.)

Then we headed back to the Ashram for more presentations, on what they want us to fund. (we have $1200 as a group to split between projects). I'll talk more about this after the rest of the presentations.

The evening was filled with stories from the children who are participating in some of Shanti Ashram's programs, it was truly amazing to hear about the impact it has had on them. Then there was singing and dancing....There is nothing like making a complete fool out of yourself in India, dancing with Indians, to Indian music. Don't worry, there are videos. It was actually pretty cool to be up there dancing with them, and seeing how excited they were that we were dancing. (they also laughed a lot)

Now I'm sitting in an internet cafe listening to the backstreet boys, and trying to remember everything that happened today. Our days are so full its hard for me to keep up with everything I've done.

I wrote this pretty fast so I might have to finish adding things I forgot later but for now, I'm going to go get dinner (probably tomato soup and french fries, its just that kind of night.