first days in the orphange

Hello to everybody,
after a long travel from colkata to sarangada, we had very walm and touching welcoming from all the children and the staff working at the orphange.
the place is very quite and a totally rural area. a lot of tribal people with tatoos on their faces and at least 10 earings in each hear are living in this area. Local people are very curious and children always say "hi", "bye";)
the daily regime of the children are very tough - waking up at 5:30 in the morning and going to bed at 10-10:30. In between they go to school (at least sometimes.. it seems there is a schoolholiday every second day), work in the garden, study, wash their clothe and eat a lot (!) of rice.
Working with children gives us a lot of positive energy and we enjoy it a lot, but sometimes it is also a bit tiring (there are 60 of them...). THIS WEek we started to devide them into 4 groups and teach, play, sing, do artwork etc. each group one day in the evening.
Staff is very friendly, and wants to do everything for us, so we have to fight to do things on our own....(like taking the water from the well, washing dishes etc.)

This week we also had some interesting insights into local culture - went to see tribal ganja (marihuana) man, who lives just next to the orphanage. HE is spending his day playing some Hindu songs and taking donation from the people who pass by (to smoke;) He and his wife stay at separate houses (because there are always some guests at the man house;). Sometimes also some tigers pass by to drink a water from the small well next to their house.
Another adventure was going to the travelling theatre, it comes to local village once in three years and some ten days it makes a play each night. PLay starts at midnight and finishes at 5 in the morning (we enjoyed dancing and some songs, but when they started only speak Oriya, we gave up and went home at 2.00;)

Greetings to everyone from hot Orissa!