Tyler's first post since the airport....

Ok... so this is Tyler and I love how most of you think that I am one that have been posting all these great updates... not so much. The only one i have done is the update of our crazy layover at the singapore airport, the only reason that it says "posted by Tyler" is because I set up the blog... shouldnt been more clear, my bad. Haha but anyway here I am and there you are at the computer so lets get right into the day shall we?

As a quick addition to Sarahs post yesterday, Manday, Nat, and I had a great day with our new English friend Lizzie that is also staying here at the BMS and is the one who showed us the Rehab Center for Children (the PT place that has been mentioned). Mandy went early with Lizzie to hang out with the kids and do some crafts. Nat and I came a little later after working on a program for the physical therapist from Nat's work, Team PT. We joined Lizzie and Mandy with playing with the kids and have a blast as always and then got a quick lunch of rice, vegies, and a fried egg with onions (Nat passed on the egg like always due to her fear of catching Salmonella like on a previous mission trip of hers)... and we ate it all with our hands of course! Mmmmm! After lunch mandy and lizzie went home and Nat and I stayed for the physical therapy clinic where Nat basically ran the session. It was awesome... I got to be her assistant along with the PT. The kids are very willing to do the exercises, definitely good patients!

That night we went to coffee to debrief and on our way back after feeding a few of the homeless Nat gave a cliff bar to one girl that was seemingly trying to sell us gum to make money and she started to walk off with it after we made it clear it was food... I always wondered where they went or what they did with this food we have been giving them so I decided to follow her. I crept around the building and saw my fears came true, I saw her hand it to a much better dressed young man. As he inspected it, she looked to him for approval... Sure enough, many of these kids we have been struggling with and trying to help out are members of "organized poverty". If you have seen Slumdog Millionaire, the organization the main character and his friends go through, we are told is a perfect representation of what happens here in India and what we just witnessed... It was truely heartbreaking, while almost infuriating for me personally....

I'm afriad I'm running out of time here at the internet cafe, they close in 20 minutes so I'm going to write the rest of the blog (of todays, March 28th's events) and post it tomorrow. BUT I do have a surprise for you! Here are some pictures!! Again, since im running out of time I'll get some more up real soon with captions.... but for now I'll just put a bunch up....


SOrry... completely ran out of time, they are closing... post soon!