The picture above is of the kids in one of the slum schools Kate and I will be teaching in starting Monday!!
As i am writing this, i can hear so many different noises from our window. There are kids playing, dogs barking, people singing, music playing, horns honking, and pigeons making whatever noise pigeons make. The pigeons here are seriously on steroids, they are insanely huge. Oh and by the way when me and Kate get home we will be using the horns on our cars in excessive amounts. The driving here is crazy. that's the only word i can think of to describe it. There are way to many people/cars/bikes on the road at one time. And everyone tries to drive in the same lane. It is really scary actually. And while you all are home in the U.S you better be thankful when you are in traffic because it is nothing to what we are experiencing over here. To even go 5 minutes down the road it takes 30 minutes because of the traffic. You have cows, dogs, monkeys, people, motorcycles, little carts, and bicycles EVERYWHERE. I am honestly surprised that we have not gotten in a car accident yet. After being here i do not understand how people in America get into so many accidents, i mean in America we have lines, and normally the cars stay in the lines. Here, there are lines, but they pack 10 cars into the 3 lanes. Oh and there are no car seats here, the kids sit wherever in the car. And they even put new born babies on motorcycles being held in the mothers arms. and the mothers don't even sit with one leg on each side, they sit side saddle. It is scary to watch. The dust here is insane, Daniel was telling us yesterday that if you do not mop and sweep the floor for 2 days it will look like you have not done it for a month. Seriously the dust is everywhere. Me and kate hung out towels out on our windows to dry and a couple hours later we brought them in and they were covered in dust. Also the only time you ever feel clean is right after you take a shower, and even 5 minutes later you feel dirty again.
Yesterday we went and saw the India gate and the house of Parliment. The buildings are all so beautiful. The India gate is in memory of the fallen soldiers of world war 2. We also went to this market place where each state of India is represented, and there are different stands where you can buy things from the different states. Also different places you can eat. We tried momo's, which is daniel's brothers favorite food. Ah and the chili here, sooooo hot. We tried a tiny tiny bit, and it killed us. And the Indian's just shovel it in like its nothing. We also got our first encounter with the kids who beg, they followed us everywhere, we also saw one little boy who had his eyes gouged out (like in slumdog millionare ----which by the way we are going to see tonight!!! soooo excited) it was so sad.....it tears your heart apart.
Today we had our first experience with an Indian church service. It was amazing how you could feel the spirit of God moving, Pastor Daniel did not speak because another Pastor who is traveling through India preached. He only spoke in Hindi so we had a translator but it was kind of difficult. His message was on the Glory of God. Everyone in the church was so nice to us, they had nothing but good things to say about my parents and how they wished they were here again. We dressed like real Indian women today, and got lots of compliments. Although the man we bought our dresses from tailored them a little small for both of us, we lived (barely, we could hardly breathe).
Yesterday we went and saw the India gate and the house of Parliment. The buildings are all so beautiful. The India gate is in memory of the fallen soldiers of world war 2. We also went to this market place where each state of India is represented, and there are different stands where you can buy things from the different states. Also different places you can eat. We tried momo's, which is daniel's brothers favorite food. Ah and the chili here, sooooo hot. We tried a tiny tiny bit, and it killed us. And the Indian's just shovel it in like its nothing. We also got our first encounter with the kids who beg, they followed us everywhere, we also saw one little boy who had his eyes gouged out (like in slumdog millionare ----which by the way we are going to see tonight!!! soooo excited) it was so sad.....it tears your heart apart.
Today we had our first experience with an Indian church service. It was amazing how you could feel the spirit of God moving, Pastor Daniel did not speak because another Pastor who is traveling through India preached. He only spoke in Hindi so we had a translator but it was kind of difficult. His message was on the Glory of God. Everyone in the church was so nice to us, they had nothing but good things to say about my parents and how they wished they were here again. We dressed like real Indian women today, and got lots of compliments. Although the man we bought our dresses from tailored them a little small for both of us, we lived (barely, we could hardly breathe).
Tomorrow starts our work as teachers, but we may have the oppertunity to go to an Indian wedding in the valley, it is a 12 hour train ride. But is is snowing where we would go!!!!! I am kind of excited, and hope we can get the experience. Also to see snow in India will be awesome.
Kate and I are still pretty jet lagged, at night we are wide awake which is the day for you all and then in the day here we are exhausted, we are trying to get our sleep pattern better but it is soo hard. We made a video of a tour of our apartment, but we cant get it to upload, so hopefully we can put it up soon for you all to see.
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