Little Heaven Orphanage >> Goa, India

 While we were in Goa we had the opportunity to visit an orphanage.  It's always been my dream to go visit somewhere foreign and help at the orphanage, probably like 90% of all people in this world, so I was more than excited to go.  We showed up with pounds of pineapples and bananas to share and were able to send off the older kids to school.  The orphanage was actually really organized and gave us only 2 hours to play with the toddlers until they had classes.  And when I mean play with them, I mean babysit 17 children all under 3 years of age in a 9'x13' locked room with no windows, no fan, no toys and a huge language barrier.  We were so excited and thought we could sing songs and play hand games the entire time, but we were so wrong.  Little 2 year olds couldn't sit there for more than 5 minutes!  We tried to get creative and within 10 minutes we were laughing at ourselves watching us chase after the escaping kids, try to separate the hitting ones, and well sweated our brains out.   We enjoyed our time we got to spend with them, but it was also so heart breaking thinking how they all don't have parents and how rough their life is.  Every weekend they have to do a lice treatment because of how bad the lice spreads throughout the orphanage.   One child was scratching her head so bad that she started crying,  I turned around to 2 little children using a stick to search for lice in each others hair, and a few children had bald spots on their heads from it.  I wished so badly that I could take every single one home but I knew that wasn't possible.  They were all so beautiful in their own way and I was grateful for the time I had with them to show them love and give them attention.