Pratham Girls Shelter :-)

Hello from Mumbai Day 10!
We cant believe that it is day 10! Time is flying out here! Today we went to Pratham's Girls Shelter in Panvel! We headed over there at about 2:30 and spent a couple of hours doing some arty things with the girls- colouring in some pictures to stick on the windows (see the pics on facebook!) and we also coloured in some spinning tops! The girls loved the spinning tops especially but they also liked it when their pictures were put up on the windows- they don't seem to have any of their artwork displayed anywhere and the shelter looks quite bare! The girls started off quite shy while we were doing the colouring in etc- a complete contrast to the rowdy boys last night! They offered to show us some of their singing and dancing and once they had started that there was no stopping them!! They completely came out of their shells, holding our hands, putting their arms around us and wanting pictures taken with us (many many manyyy pictures!!!)! Their singing and dancing was really good- we'll hopefully be able to load some of the videos up onto facebook too for you all to see! The girls english was no where near as good as the boys which made things quite difficult but we managed to get by! Before we left we had a proper little photo shoot with them- they all wanted their pictures taken with their friends or with us, and then they wanted to see them after that! The girls called us DiDi all day, which means Big Sister- very cute but grows a bit tiresome when you hear it a thousand times in an hour! The boys kept calling us DiDi yesterday too but we didnt know what it meant until today! Once again we're not sure what our plans are for tomorrow- they seem to have forgotten that they need to tell us where to go! So if we dont hear from them we'll probably just head back to the boys shelter and do some more activities with them! Ruchita was supposed to meet us at the shelter today to translate for us, but she didnt turn up so it was a good job we vaguely knew where we were going!! We're heading down for dinner shortly- think a vodka may be on the cards for tonight!! ;-)! Then it will be time to Skype everyone back home!
Missing you all
love Lisa and Claire xXxXx