Before we left Vellore we toured an amazing Indian fortress. It was built long ago using huge stones that are perfectly placed together. The temple that you see behind us is quite old (about 1,000 years). Many Hindu temples are painted using bright colors. I like this one the best becuase it is intricately carved and in the color of the stone used.
One of the work projects was constructing this traditional Indian home. The students helped carry bricks, mix cement, and pass the palm branches up to the workers. (Really the mason and villagers did most of the work!) This will be very useful for holding small group meetings and/or classes in. It will eventually be painted green and was named the "ICS Green house." It was neat to see them build the frame and tie the branches to the supports. They left the sides open and it is very cool in there. Even though we don't do a lot of the work, Jayapaul says we are the stimulus for making things happen--i.e. they have to think of new projects for us to do!!
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