I have just arrived back from a week in Coimbatore, India. Coimbatore is about 6 hours south of where I am currently staying and is in the state of Tamil Nadu. I went there with the couple that I am staying with to help run a Vacation Bible School program at a church there.
The week was wonderful, full of lots of singing and dancing with the kids, a plethora of photographic opportunities in the adorable faces of the kids as well as amazing food from our host family that we stayed with!
Right now in Coimbatore the temperature is extremely hot and humid, hotter and more humid than Florida in July if you can imagine that, but with no air conditioning anywhere. The extreme heat definitely made me tired and worn out alot faster than normal, but the program we did and the people we worked with and met made up for any tiredness felt.
The theme of the Vacation Bible School was "Inside Out", teaching kids and teenagers about how to allow their inner faith affect the way that they live and interact with others. Most days I helped lead the singing and dancing during the main session for the kids as well as photograph everything going on. One day I spent with the teenagers teaching them a lesson about how their actions and the way that they live impact their lives powerfully long term as well as the lives of others, it was wonderful to get to spend time teaching teenagers!
Here are some pictures from the week there!
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Someday soon the poetry and photography will collide again.
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