The final hours

My last day at Rising Star campus was spent in the school. And of course I loved every minute of it! As usual, we started out with UKG fundamentals and then computer time. The real fun started after that, though.

We went to 7th standard. Yeah. I taught 7th graders. It was their reading comprehension time, so we continued reading in Pippi Longstocking. I was amazed at how well they behaved and followed along! I actually had to get after one of the volunteers to put his phone away and be involved more than I had to get after any of the students. Even though they are 7th graders, I felt like I was teaching 5th graders again. Simply because that's where their English and reading skills seem to be. Maybe that's why I loved it so much? Then we went back to UKG for story time. I read with Jegadeesh, Krishna, and Danalakshmi. Oh my gosh, it was so fun! It was like reading stories with Everett and Karcher all over again. Awesome! Then we went to 2nd standard for value education. We're still teaching about forgiveness this week. They were the most well behaved class of the day. They all raised their hands and reminded each other to not shout out and wait their turn. Um...awesome!!

After lunch, I was with 8th standard (yep, another upper grade for me that I never thought I would teach!) for reading comprehension. They are reading Little House on the Prairie, so we picked up where they left off last week. I was with 3 of the 16 year old volunteers, who actually did more distracting than helping in this class. Ugh. But, we managed to get through, and I actually enjoyed that as well. Then 3rd standard came into the library and they read to us. They were a bunch of goof balls; I loved it! Afterwards, Carl, Emily, and I went with Rosie to help with 6th standard art time. I've never really enjoyed teaching art, so I'm glad Rosie did it and I just got to help the kids. They have amazing art skills! Definitely a great way to end my time here.

The last play time was a blast! Of course we all took our cameras, and all the kids were like "Auntie! I take one photo!" And then we'd take probably 20. I couldn't say no to them though! They're just too cute! When the bell rang for them to head in for prayer time, we all got many hugs. Made my night. :) We had a group prayer time today since we leave at 3am. A few of the volunteers shared with the kids their thoughts on our time here, and a couple of the others sang some songs with them. The last song we sang was "I Am a Child of God" and I'm positive I'll never be able to sing that song again without thinking of these wonderful children. It was one of those situations where I didn't even sing it at all because I tend to turn into a leaky faucet. Thankfully Carley was the same way, so we sat and cried together while the girls we were by looked at us like we were crazy. Afterwards, we gave all the kids hugs and attempted to leave the dining hall. I had several girls come up to me and wipe my tears away and say "No more cry. Just come back." Which of course didn't really help the situation. After a while Carley and I told ourselves we had to leave before the tears started coming again. As we walked back to the elephant house, it began to pour rain, the power went out for over an hour, and we ate by the light of flashlights while telling what we wanted to take home with us. Very fitting for our last night here as most of us said things like we wanted to pay more attention to the little things in life and be happy with what we've got.

There's so much to learn about how to selflessly serve others, and Rising Star is one of the best places to learn it because it comes from the example of the people that live here; adults and children alike. I wish I could take them all home with me, or that all of you could have the chance to come here and see for yourselves how wonderful the Indian people are! The genuine love that radiates from the children's faces every time they smile at you will just melt your heart. :)


I've loved my time here and will never forget all the things I've learned.  I could never explain my love for all the people I've met here. The children at the school and their parents/family members in the leprosy colonies are such examples of gratitude, unfailing love, patience, perseverance and the list could go on and on!  I am so grateful for the opportunity I've had to serve here and meet so many wonderful people!

*Various pictures from the colony and zoo yesterday and play time today

These 2 girls were the ones that were crying and begging me to stay.

This place is a zoo!

Today was my last day on medical. Still did not see anyone with one of our IWA bags, nor did I get to hand any out. While talking with Klorisa about it, she said it's probably because since the patients have gotten those bags, they have been taking much better care of their wounds and therefore less people are coming to get them cleaned by the volunteers. They only come if the doctor is there as well. Which happens about every 3 weeks or so.

I was once again on debriefing with Navomani. We saw a lot more patients come through today than on Friday. And she let me put the bandages on all of them. She even asked if I wanted to cut away the skin once. I wasn't quite ready for that, though. It was so cool to see everyone's reactions to what we do. Every single person I helped today looked me in the eye and said thank you multiple times. Nearly brought me to tears every time! These people really know how to express their gratitude, and are very sincere about it.

After we were done at the colony, we got to go to the zoo! It was pretty awesome. :) In reality, it was very similar to a zoo in the states. But it's just so awesome to say I visited a zoo in India. Plus, we saw a cobra. It was in a glass cage, no worries. The otter was my favorite. For some reason there was only one and it was almost like it was putting on a show for us. We rented a golf cart like thing because everything is very spread out. And us Americans were more exciting to everyone than the animals. Weird. But whatev.

Tomorrow's my last day here at Rising Star. :( I have mixed emotions about it. I'm excited to head up to Delhi and see the Taj and various other things for a few days. And I'm excited to be back in the states and eat "real" food (curry only goes so far!) and use a real shower (I'll never look at a bucket the same again). But I absolutely love the people here. And it's a wonderful experience to see how these people live on a daily basis. Guess we'll see how I feel about it tomorrow.

*Pictures to come tomorrow. I'm too lazy to upload them tonight! 

Work hard, play hard

The whole time I've been here I've been hearing about how awesome construction is. Today I got to find out for myself. I don't know that awesome would be the word to describe it, but it was pretty fun. :)

We gathered together just before 10 am and walked over to the sick bay that we're building. Turns out there was still 3 holes that needed to be filled with sand. And don't you worry, it just poured rain for like an hour last night. So we had to deal with mud as well as haul wet sand. It went surprisingly fast, though. When the holes were filled, and the first load of bricks emptied, we took a snack break. And then jumped in a pile of sand. Just to get a picture. I don't think the guy that took it for us completely understood what we wanted, but we had some good laughs about it. By then another load of bricks was ready for us. So we made an assembly line and began throwing bricks. Yes. Throwing. Two at a time even. We were awesome at it. After lunch, we loaded and unloaded twice more. So I think we moved a total of about 1600 bricks today. I think my arms are going to fall off. I can't decide if hauling wet sand and so many bricks is better or worse than helping Dad haul cement and build a garage and barn. However, this was definitely more enjoyable.

That's the kind of holes we were filling in.

Mine and Maddy's awesome wet sand hauling abilities.

Throwing bricks.

Some of our many attempts at a jumping picture...

Every day is a gift

I'm at the school again today. And I'm just loving it! But I'm still glad I don't teach kindergarten. :)

After morning fundamentals with the UKG kids, we had a bit of a break while the school had morning announcements and prayer. I watched (and tried to hear) and was once again blown away at how well behaved these kids are! I really just want to record them and show them to my students and say something like "If these little kids can do it, so can you." But cameras aren't allowed at school. :( Before reciting the Lord's prayer, the little kids (I think UKG and 1st standard) sang all 3 verses of I Am a Child of God. I could barely hear them, but it was so easy to tell that they truly believe it! They know that they don't necessarily live in the best of circumstances and that their needs really are great. But they always find a way to make the best of it. Always.

We then headed up to computer time with the UKG kids. It was a lot more interactive this time. I worked with Swetha and a little boy who's name I can't pronounce to even sound out how to spell it. Swetha was flying through her shapes and numbers; it was awesome! And I loved how excited she was to show me every time she got one right. The little boy, on the other hand, was giving me a headache. He's one that has a harder time understanding English still, and when I would delete his answer because he told me the right number but typed it in wrong, he would just shut down. Ugh. He finally started to get it and be excited about it when the bell was rung and they had to leave. Go figure. Next was 1st standard games and activities. I was a little bit excited because I knew more of what to expect having taught first grade last year. I got to read the book The Way I Feel, and then we split into groups and made paper plate faces for all the feelings. It was awesome! Unfortunately, we ended up with not quite enough planned, and it was chaos for the last 10 minutes. We then went to games and activities with UKG. I worked with Velankanni and Jegadeesh. Love them both! We had popsicle sticks and made numbers and letters with them. I can handle kindergarten in small groups like that; we seriously had a blast!

After lunch I got to play lead teacher for our 5th standard reading comprehension lesson. We read a short passage about a coat as a class. They then had to read it themselves and draw the coat in their sketch books. I was so surprised at how many of the most common words for me they didn't understand! For example, I had to explain the words patch and lower several times. It was my favorite lesson here so far because I feel like I was really in the zone of teaching instead of just following someone else's lead. We were supposed to go to 9th standard for value education afterwards, but I guess they had a test or something going on. I'm okay with that; there's a reason I didn't do secondary education! We ended with 1st standard value education. It was a bit of chaos all over again. And we're pretty sure nothing stuck for them. But it was another successful school day here at Rising Star. :)

Every day here at Rising Star is not only a gift for the kids that are here, but for me as well. Their lives will be better because of their education and my life is better for having the chance to know them.

Temples will dot the earth

After getting up early, making some eggs for breakfast, going on a hunt for safety pins, having one of the house mothers, Kala, dress several of us for church (we wore sari's), we finally made it out for the long drive into Chennai. I can now say that I've had to travel nearly 2 hours one way to get to church. I'm really glad that's not the case for me at home!

Church was so cool. I absolutely love going to church outside of Utah. We left a little late, and then our driver had to stop for petrol, so we got there just in time to stand outside the chapel doors and take the sacrament. It's a small branch; smaller than the one I went to the summer I lived in Indiana, but only barely. The very front 2 rows were left for those of us on the van that was late, so I ended up in the very front. Sacrament was completely in English. And, when it came time for the rest hymn, they didn't have their pianist. The girl leading the music motioned to me and asked if I played. So I got to play in sacrament meeting in India. On the spot. Kinda cool. :)  Sunday School was also completely in English, which I was grateful for since it really bothers me when I don't know what's being said. It was interesting to watch some of the members reactions to the stories of the pioneers. It's like they were little primary children hearing them for the first time. Towards the end of the lesson, the teacher started talking about temples. The closest temple is Hong Kong. Yeah, not very close at all. Only the branch presidency and anyone who has gone on a mission has had the chance to go. Maybe a few others here and there if they can afford it. It really put into perspective how blessed I've been to always have a temple within a 10-15 minute drive of where I live. Minus the summer I was in Indiana when the closest one was.....I don't actually remember where. Columbus, maybe? He then told the story of when President Monson first visited the small branch in Germany back in 1968 and how he promised them that someday they would have wards, stakes, and a temple. That happened for them in 1985. This continued into a discussion of what the members here need to do to get a temple in their own land. I loved how enthusiastic everyone was about it! You don't see that kind of enthusiasm in Utah. At least not very much. And you bet your bottom dollar that the day a temple is announced for India, I will be planning a trip back!

Relief Society was......different. It was 75% Tamil and 25% English. So I had a hard time paying attention since I didn't really know what was being said. I got to play the piano for them again, which was exciting. Except for the fact that the keyboard in that room was set an octave higher or something. I just know something was off about it and I couldn't figure out how to fix it. After church, we piled back into the vans for the long drive back. But we stopped at a grocery store as well. I got me some much needed snacks (Oreos, wafer cookies, Cadbury chocolate bars, and ice cream). Okay, I probably didn't need any of that, but I'm definitely craving it. And I'll probably bring the chocolate home because it's cheap here and not there.

It's back to work tomorrow for another 4 days. We leave at 2am Friday to head out on our Delhi trip. I know. You're all wondering if I'll be able to get up that early. I've been awake at that time every night anyway, so I don't think there'll be any problems.

Surf's up!

It was a day off from normal volunteer duties today. So we went to the beach!

Remember how things are always changing in India? Well, it happened again today. We were supposed to have 2 vans to take us all to Mamallapuram for a day of surfing, beach, and shopping. Oh, and eating. But, they ended up sending one of the vans out to pick up some of the parents of the kids here (it was parents day today). So we waited an extra 40 minutes while the coordinators figured things out. Then we squished 9 of us into a little SUV. Let's just say it was not super comfortable for a 90 minute drive. But, we got there!

Upon arrival in Mamallapuram, we proceeded down the street (yes, we braved walking on the crazy busy streets!) to the surf shop. And yes, I sucked up my fear of drowning and was a part of the group that attempted to surf. After getting our boogie boards and surf boards, we made our way down to the beach.

This was not the first view we had, but it'll do. :)

We were at the Bay of Bengal, and it was perfect! The waves were great, and the water and air temperature was just right. It actually reminded me a lot of the Gulf of Mexico. It took me a while, but I finally got up the guts to get on a boogie board. I never actually made it out far enough to even try to get up on a wave, but I don't think I would have been able to even if I had. But it was AWESOME nonetheless! After a while, we started playing over or under, or just plain acted like we were 5 and made whale sounds while jumping into the waves. I loved it! 

We then headed back to change into dry clothes, but first Nery (the construction coordinator) found the guy that gets much pleasure out of hosing down the tourists. It was pretty fun, and it felt good to get the salt off of me. Then we ate lunch at a place called Moon Rakers. I had chicken fried noodles. Oh my. They were SO good! And it was a nice change from the rice and curry every night here on campus. We then proceeded to shop. Things are pretty cheap here, which is super good for me! My all time favorite finds of the day, though, are my scarf and silver ring. Yep, real silver. And I'm pretty fond of my elephant pants, too. :)

When we got back to RSO campus, we hung around for a while, ate some more rice and curry (go figure, right?), sat around telling awkward date/first kiss stories, and then headed over to movie night with the kids. I think the movie we watched was called After Earth? I don't really know. And I have no idea what the storyline was. And I'm pretty sure I have no desire to ever see it again. But it was fun to see the kids and have them be so excited to tell us about all the things their parents brought them. :) 

I can't believe my time here is almost up! I don't want it to end. The people here are just fabulous! Volunteers included. These kids have next to nothing, but seem to be the happiest people on earth. Every single one of them has the goal of going to college and getting a real job when they grow up. I just hope that it happens for them, and that they can become a part of the regular society here again.

Moosah

Gracie

The surfing group. Side note: we also got to be in someone's wedding pictures. I guess it's the cool thing to have the American's be in your pictures. :)

End of week 1

You know that feeling you have when everything suddenly deletes itself? Yeah, that totally just happened to me. So I'm sorry if this post isn't as exciting, because this is my second time typing it.

So it's the end of week one. Uh...what? Time is going by way too fast for me. I could stay here forever! Minus the humidity, of course. :)

I was on medical again today. We went to the smallest colony. Or at least one of the smallest. You could see the whole thing from the building we were in. I was on debriefing today with Navomani. It's the job that no one ever seems to want. But I actually kinda liked it. Navomani cleaned the wounds, cut off the dead skin, and put iodine stuff on it, and then I got to wrap it. It was neat. I didn't see any of our bags today. Klorisa (the medical coordinator) said she's pretty sure I'll see one while I'm here though. I hope so!

Afterwards, we went to a Hindi Temple. It was kinda small, but neat to walk through. There was a massive flight of stairs right across from it, so we also climbed those to see another building (I think it used to be the temple?) and some temple ruins that they said are over 200 years old. It was pretty cool. But I think my legs are going to be sore from those stairs; they were not even close to level!

This is what most of the houses look like. I'm so glad I don't have to live in one!

One of the villages we drove through was having a party. They even had the music playing over loud speakers and waved for us to join them.

Inside the temple

The other temple

Temple ruins

Top of the temple that's used now

Everything changes in India

Today, I was supposed to be on the construction crew. I was somewhat dreading it, having seen how the crew came back yesterday (covered from head to toe in mud and sweaty and gross). But I was excited because construction doesn't leave until 9:45 while everyone else is gone before 9. Then, at morning conclave (it means gathering) they asked for volunteers from the day's construction crew to go with some of the kids to the hospital to see the optometrist. No one really jumped for it, so I did. Carly and Lauren joined me. James, the dance instructor also went with us. We had some of the UKG kids, all of 1st standard, and a handful of older kids. The hospital was only about 20 minutes away. Carly, Lauren, and I went with the big group of little kids. And it was a good thing, too! Those kids are quite the handful.

The hospital didn't even seem like a hospital. There were some rooms that are used for college classes. The pediatrics room was SUPER small. And it didn't seem like anything was sterile at all. All their equipment looked so old. As much as I despise hospitals, it makes me really glad that ours are the way they are!

The language barrier is starting to get to me. It really bothers me when I can't understand what someone is saying....whether it's English or Tamil. Hopefully I can pick up a few words in the next couple of days.

Yesterday at playtime, I had a couple of 7th standard girls asking me why I wasn't married. Ugh. I thought I'd get away from questions like that by coming to another country! I gave the usual "I don't know" answer, and they proceeded to ask me if I liked arranged marriages or "love" marriages more. How do you answer that?! I told them I prefer a "love" marriage (it's so weird to call it that!) but that I'm also not against people having an arranged marriage. Just that it's not for me. They continued to drill me about all things related to boys and marriage and the states. Their questions were actually very interesting.

I talked to the medical coordinator about the bags we made in IWA and sent over a couple years ago. She said she still has some that she hands out, and that I'll probably get to hand one or more out as well. I'm super excited about it! Maybe it'll be tomorrow, as it's another medical day for me. :)

Me and Swetha

Just hanging out waiting for the other kids to be done.

School...Indian Style

*Pictures at the bottom. It's a long one today, so feel free to skim if you'd like. :)

Uh...wow. That's about sums up my day in the school. It's so different from American schools! We started out with the UKG (aka kindergarten) kids singing songs and getting to know their names. They have the hardest time speaking English and are therefore the most difficult to understand. From there we went to the little library (emphasis on little!) and picked out some picture books. We were picking books to read to 1st standard (1st grade) but it was the equivalent of picking books for the beginning of kindergarten. Then we headed up to the computer lab with the UKG kids. There wasn't a whole lot for us to do (but then again, the actual teacher doesn't usually do much in the computer lab anyway) but it was fun to watch the kids color the letters in and then be so excited to tell you what it was. :)

Then the real party began. We headed down to 1st standard, and got to do some one-on-one reading. Initially I was really excited for this part. But it turned out to be harder than I expected. The little boy I was reading with wouldn't let me read the book (who doesn't want to read Harold and the Purple Crayon?! I mean really, it's one of the best picture books out there.) and he was just quite the handful. He actually reminded me a lot of one of my students from this past year. Only he could barely speak English. I think that was the hardest part for me. But, I finally figured out that he loved counting, and so we started counting windows and pies and whatever else was in the illustrations. :)  And then we headed back to UKG. It was coloring time. Saturday is parents day, so Rosie (the education coordinator) was brave and pulled out the paint. It was the first time paint had ever been used in the school, and the first time any of those kids have ever seen or touched it. (That just boggles my mind!) But the loved getting their hands painted and stamping it on the paper. We sang songs and played and ABC game afterwards. Then we got a super long lunch break! It was so nice to come back and sit in the air conditioned room for a bit.

After lunch, we once again headed back to UKG. :S I'm so glad I don't teach kindergarten! The kids are super cute and fun to play with, but I am NOT cut out to be a kindergarten teacher! Anyway, their paintings were dry by then, and so we had them color in the letters of their names, the heart at the bottom, and then write their name. They were so excited to tell you what each color was, all the letters in their names, and then to show off the finished product. :) Made me really miss my first graders! They have interesting names here: Moosha (moose-a), Swetha (svet-a) and now I can't remember some of the others. I'll probably get them all down right when it's time to leave.

We had another short break, and then my all time favorite part of the day, 5th standard!! I absolutely LOVED teaching the older kids! Our block of time was for value education. This week we're talking about honesty and integrity. I got to start class and get them hooked on the lesson. Which was harder than I expected it to be. But, I managed, and the lesson was so great! They acted out the story Stone Soup, and we even had time to split into groups and make up our own skits. I just hope my 5th graders are as enthusiastic about school as these kids were!

Saw my first spider today. I pulled a towel off the rack in the kitchen and there it was behind the window. Thankfully it was behind, or I probably would have screamed bloody murder. I was freaked out still, though, and hung the towel up as fast as I could and basically ran out. Hopefully that's the only encounter I have in the next 2 weeks. I don't think I could handle seeing a bigger one.

My school outfit. I'm in love. I WILL find one to wear on the first day of school!

That orange building is where we did the washing, bandaging, oiling, etc. And that's the cute old man from yesterday's post.

I was soaked yesterday walking back from the dining hall to the Elephant House. I loved it!

Today I was a medic

I was on the medical team today. We went out to one of the biggest colonies, but also one of the ones that's the most self-sufficient. It's so cool to finally see the places I've been reading about for almost 2 years! I was really hoping to see one of the bags we made in IWA, but no one had one today. I'm crossing my fingers that next time I'm on medical I'll see one!

The people in the colonies are so nice! Actually, all the people here are. They love to watch us wherever we go and always wave as we drive by. One cute little old man today was so afraid to get his toenails clipped! He wouldn't let Debbie do it, or the Indian nurse that was with us. It was so funny to watch him jump. He kept coming back in the building to check on all of us, too. It was so cute! I LOVED being able to finally see the colonies. I've been reading about them, and talking to people about this for almost 2 years now, so it was a big accomplishment to actually see them.

The animals run wild here. There's always cows, goats, and dogs in the middle of the street without owners. Sometimes chickens/roosters, too. It's so weird. I saw monkeys today. Apparently they are really mean. And I bought a painting from one of the colonies. I'm so excited to hang it up in my classroom when I get back!

It poured rain this afternoon. So much so that I was drenched in about 2 minutes. It was awesome! And it was so cool to watch the lightening when we went up to the roof for dinner. (The roof is covered....so no worries there.) Red rice is apparently something we have for dinner every night. It wasn't too bad last night or tonight. But I think by the time I leave, I will never want to eat rice again. However the curry is delicious! And I love that it's spicy. :) We also had hard boiled eggs that were boiled in some onion and something sauce. They were spicy, too, but so good! I also had my first ever bucket shower. Yeah.....I'll be glad to be done with those! Still can't bring myself to use the Indian toilets. Maybe on my last day, just to say I did it.

I think tomorrow is going to be my favorite day. I'm on the education team, and I get to spend the whole day in the school! Seriously, I can hardly contain my excitement. :) The boys and girls are separated here, so it'll be a nice taste of what I'll get in 6 weeks. (Yikes! That came fast!)

*More pictures to come tomorrow, probably.

Rising Star Outreach

What a day! Yesterday, I fell asleep around 1pm. And it was 8pm before I woke up for more than thirty seconds. That was when I finally put my pajamas on, ate a granola bar, and went back to bed. My travel buddy, Kylie, was asleep by then, too. Unfortunately, we were both wide awake around 2am. That would be 2:30pm the previous day over there. We were up reading our books until about 4:30; that's when I forced myself to go back to sleep for a while. I finally got up and showered around 7am, and we were down for breakfast by 8:45. They serve vegetables for breakfast...weird! But the food is good. :) And spicy. The Rising Star vans finally made it to the hotel just after 10, and we were on the road by 11. We stopped at the grocery store on the way for some snacks, and finally made it to campus just after 1pm. Woot!! We got the tour and the lowdown, split into our groups for the rest of the time, and then went to play time with the kids. Oh my gosh....they are so cute! And they talk so fast and I can't understand what they say hardly at all. Some of the girls braided my hair, and let's just say it looks way better than when I do it. Unfortunately, I didn't have my camera with me, so no pictures of it. After play time, we had prayer time. I'm in the boys hostel this week, and our group of boys was a little rowdy tonight. But it was so fun to watch them sing "Baby Bumblebee", and "If All the Raindrops Were Lemondrops and Gumdrops". They also sang some song in Tamil. Something about a tsunami maybe? At least that's what it sounded like every now and then. Afterwards, we walked them to the dining hall, and then came back to the Elephant House and went to the roof for dinner. It was dark (it gets dark around 6:30pm) and therefore hard to see what I was eating, but it was tasty! Tomorrow is my first full day on the Rising Star campus and I get to spend it out in the colonies with the medical team. It's a little nerve wracking, but I'm excited. And I hope I see some of the bags we made for them in IWA a couple years ago!

There's 4 people on that bike. Yeah. 4. And we saw some with more than that!

Traffic is insane here!! No one pays attention to the lines on the road; they just drive wherever they fit. Literally. There's very few stop lights/signs. This was at a stoplight, which was only there so people from the crosswalk could go. Everyone crowds to the front. This was "light" traffic at this point in our journey. 

Kylie and me in our first chididara's for the next 10 days!

India!!

So, I'm in India. Right now. And it's 3am. Good thing I have another day to get used to the drastic time change! I definitely need it. I think I only managed to sleep for 3-4 hours since 7am Friday morning. Yeah...that's a long time with no sleep. But I made it!

It's super humid here. I can feel the humidity even the a/c on. :S Not sure I'll ever get used to that, but we'll see. The people here are super nice! Unfortunately, it's also super hard to understand some of them. We're just gonna hang out at the hotel tomorrow, hopefully meet a few other Rising Star people, and then Monday morning they'll come pick us up and take us out to the colonies. Yay! I'm seriously so excited to get this adventure started! Oh wait....it already is. :)