Love at first sight

Can you say Love at first sight. This is exactly what I felt staring at these big brown mischevious and charming eyes of our resident director's 3 year old angel.

Being around Americans and living in an international hostel that boasts international students every semester seems like the life, especially when you are 3. This angel certainly thinks so as she runs through hallways and into our rooms and lives like a bright firework. She loves to dance and sing, she will only eat the middle of oreo cookies, and she likes to play "I'm teacher, you are student". This 3 year old holds a special place inside my heart as the little sister I never had. I truly care about this young mischief maker. She is definitely spoiled by all of us Americans' and international students, but we don't mind because she is just too cute to resist.

She is also very intelligent. She knows how to be charming alongside her trilinguality (Hindi, Telegu, and English- all fluently for the most part). Her laugh is like a thousand sun beams licking up the dew after rainfall. She gets her cute laugh and beautiful features from her mother, whom I also cherish.

They have made my future departing that much harder because I know I will miss them the most. When I come back to India, I will definitely repay them a visit. Our resident director is an amazing and strong woman who lets nothing get her down. Her contagious happiness is a silver lining to everyone's cloud and she is willing to do what she can for us (crazy rickshaw rides to the middle of town, staying up late to do heena, and stopping on the side of the road so we can take photos of monkeys). She is also very smart, with knowledge of several languages; her newest goal is to learn Urdu, Arabic and Japanese. Her passion is teaching and children and it is because of her that I am more than willing to volunteer a few hours out of my week to teach the poor migrant workers' children down the road.

I wish them both the best of luck and a happy life because they have both made my stay here that much more enjoyable. <3 <3

Modeling my glasses