Swimming in Photos!

I just uploaded my India photos to my computer, and I have just over 400 shots! Holy shit shutterbug! The trip was just that memorable though. I will eventually put them all up on Kodak, once I sort and filter and edit, but for now I will try to just post a few of my favorites each day.

I'll start with this one, not because it is a particularly great shot, but because it is what we went there to do (although as it turns out, our visit to the village was about much more than building houses, but I won't go into all of that yet.)
This is my building team from the second day, including some volunteers, the masons, and the family that will live in the house. You'll notice that the house is not finished -- during the two weeks that we were there, we pretty much just built the walls. They have to get government approval of structural safety before they go ahead and put the roofs on. Eventually the houses will have cement floors, a tin roof, and whitewashed and painted walls. They expect to be finished by May 2008.

This is the family that will be living in the house.

Fellow volunteers Sid and Hannah with The World's Most Adorable Baby. I think that is actually her name, or at least it should be. Every single one of us was completely in love with her - she was always happy, even when being passed around by 17 complete strangers. If Angelina Jolie came to the KI Village, this is the one she would adopt!

Another one of my favorite kids from the village, but I don't remember her name because I am terrible with names. She renamed me Chuni, and called me that every single time she saw me. A really sweet girl, and I just love this photo of her because it is so expressive.