Alison and I, along with all the YMCA staff were invited to attend Juno's son's wedding! Juno is the housekeeper at the Y.
So Alison and I went in search of a Sari to wear for the wedding!
We both ended up getting 3 because there was a 40% off sale for the New Year!!
I got a salmon colored sari with gold and white trim that is cotton and I got a silk tourquoise aqua and brown sari that has the technique of betiking... kind of like tye-dye... but they layer the colors with wax and then take the wax off to make patterns and things. The Sari I got to wear for the wedding is silk, the edge is a sky blue and the middle is navy, the whole thing is hand embroydered with pink and green leaves. They are all sooo pretty!
Ms. Gomes and Ms. Purkait helped up to get dressed (it will take me many many days of practice in order to learn how to put on by myself, so I can do it at home) Then I went to the girls and they did my hair and gave me a matching bindi and put lip stick on me and let me borrow their nice sandles and a necklace. It was so touching how everyone was so helpful to us. The girls told me "you are our sister so we want to help you and share our things with you" They are amazing! :-)
We arrived to the wedding (which the bride and groom did a court wedding, so we were just there for the celebration) there were colorful fabrics and an extravagant stage area for the bride and groom. The bride was covered with gold bangles and jewlery, absolutely covered! and the groom was decked out in fancy clothes and garlands of flowers. I think we were towards the end of the guests because when we got there, they looked hot and sweaty and about to be sick. Every guest must feed them sweets (the gooey balls) and milk. They are the sweetest, most rich things in the world, so I can undersdtand if they were feeling sick! They could barely take a bite. When it was my turn I fed them the sweets then I was handed the glass of milk and told "drink milk"... so I start to bring the glass to my mouth and everyone yells NO! oops I was supposed to have the bride and groom drink the milk! Well at least I made the bride and groom laugh a little! haha After that we gave them our gift and then went to eat. There was no silverwear and Alsion and I did awesome!! It was our first time eating rice and saucy things with only our hands! I guess after a few months of observing the balling up the rice and the thumb flick... we were pretty good! The menu was a veggie cutlet dumbling thing, salad, a friend bread with chick pea saucey thing (that was my favorite, besides the sweets haha) white rice and dhal, jackfruit and prawn, fried rice, chicken curry, sweet mango, then the white gooey balls and then my favorite sweet of all time the cylinderish shaped brown gooey sweet, and then ice cream! and we had to eat so fast because people were waiting to sit in out seats! The food was so delicious and I didn't make a mess! The experiance was pretty overwheling, but so neat to see how another culture celebrates a wedding! and we got lots of complements on our saris!
So for the past few weeks the English girls haven't been at school because their books had not come in. But yesterday they came! We spend the evening helping them cover their books so that theywould be ready for class today! It brought back memories of having to cover my books for school (or my mom covering them ;-) ) It was fun! and now they can all go to school and be caught up!
Thursday, April 16, 2009
Friday, April 10, 2009
Easter
Yesterday was a lot of fun!
Alison and I had bought almost 400 peices of little candies for the girls. Mango bites, caramel/ choclate chews chews, and a milky hard candy. We called all the girls together, which wasn't hard for once since it was a holiday and they were all watching TV. We told them we had a suprise but we had to set up first, so everyone had to stay in the TV room, and no peeking! We went around and hid the candy in all of their study rooms and outside in bushes and trees and flower pots, any where! When we were done we went back into the room and explained that in the U.S. for Easter we have a tradition of Easter Egg Hunts, so that we hid candy everywhere and they had to go find it... they were pretty excited about that!! They colleced most of the candy, maybe only 20 pieces short or so (some may have been eaten) They brought the candy the found back to us and put in a bag, and then would continue their search. At the end of it we distributed all the candy so they all got the same amount, because of course the older girls where coming back with huge handfulls and the little ones would have 1 or 2 peices they found. The girls had a lot of fun searching around for the candy and of course eating after! Which Alison and I also enjoyed! haha. For Tiffen we all got huge peices of watermelon, yummm! and then the girls got the new Arkshay heart-throb movie "8x10" It was about this man who's father got killed, and he had a special stop watch that e would set for a minute at a time and be able to see through his father's eyes who really killed him. In the end the Man had a twoin brother that killed him... I'm pretty sure thats how the movie goes haha... its hard to pick up on things when its all in Hindi, the girls explained it pretty well to us though!
The girls kept saying what a lucky day it was and giving me hugs! :-) I'm glad we did something exciting and special for them for the holiday! It was a nice day!
Alison and I had bought almost 400 peices of little candies for the girls. Mango bites, caramel/ choclate chews chews, and a milky hard candy. We called all the girls together, which wasn't hard for once since it was a holiday and they were all watching TV. We told them we had a suprise but we had to set up first, so everyone had to stay in the TV room, and no peeking! We went around and hid the candy in all of their study rooms and outside in bushes and trees and flower pots, any where! When we were done we went back into the room and explained that in the U.S. for Easter we have a tradition of Easter Egg Hunts, so that we hid candy everywhere and they had to go find it... they were pretty excited about that!! They colleced most of the candy, maybe only 20 pieces short or so (some may have been eaten) They brought the candy the found back to us and put in a bag, and then would continue their search. At the end of it we distributed all the candy so they all got the same amount, because of course the older girls where coming back with huge handfulls and the little ones would have 1 or 2 peices they found. The girls had a lot of fun searching around for the candy and of course eating after! Which Alison and I also enjoyed! haha. For Tiffen we all got huge peices of watermelon, yummm! and then the girls got the new Arkshay heart-throb movie "8x10" It was about this man who's father got killed, and he had a special stop watch that e would set for a minute at a time and be able to see through his father's eyes who really killed him. In the end the Man had a twoin brother that killed him... I'm pretty sure thats how the movie goes haha... its hard to pick up on things when its all in Hindi, the girls explained it pretty well to us though!
The girls kept saying what a lucky day it was and giving me hugs! :-) I'm glad we did something exciting and special for them for the holiday! It was a nice day!
Thursday, April 9, 2009
Catch Up!
So its been a little while, the internet hasn't been working to well.
First off, there may not be anymore pictures going up since the internet guy taped of the pen drive slot....
But since we've been back from our trip, the weather has been about 100 degrees with 90% humidity!!! Wow! I can't even tell you how hot that is! Especially, having to wear long pants and T-shirts! But we've been getting by... We have been playing card games, hand games, and word games with the girls, whoch has been fun. There are only English girls and half the Hindi girls left. The Bengali girls are on their vacation until the begining of May and the older Hindi girls left for their new school. Its been quite around here! When the Bengali girls come back, the English and Hindi girls will go on their vacation. So our last few days here it will seem very empty!
The little girls all had to shave their heads!!! They look like little tiny Monks! They are too cute!
We have learned a bunch of new dances from the dance teacher, which is a lot of fun. AND... there has been a snake hunt!! Snakes have been seen around our guest house, one even got inside!! But the gardners killed it and they killed another one that was poisonous! They also sickled all the long grass and cleared the brush around our place so the snakes won't come hang out! So we keep our eyes open!!
Thats all for now! I'll put some more up later!
Thanks for reading!
I miss you all!!
First off, there may not be anymore pictures going up since the internet guy taped of the pen drive slot....
But since we've been back from our trip, the weather has been about 100 degrees with 90% humidity!!! Wow! I can't even tell you how hot that is! Especially, having to wear long pants and T-shirts! But we've been getting by... We have been playing card games, hand games, and word games with the girls, whoch has been fun. There are only English girls and half the Hindi girls left. The Bengali girls are on their vacation until the begining of May and the older Hindi girls left for their new school. Its been quite around here! When the Bengali girls come back, the English and Hindi girls will go on their vacation. So our last few days here it will seem very empty!
The little girls all had to shave their heads!!! They look like little tiny Monks! They are too cute!
We have learned a bunch of new dances from the dance teacher, which is a lot of fun. AND... there has been a snake hunt!! Snakes have been seen around our guest house, one even got inside!! But the gardners killed it and they killed another one that was poisonous! They also sickled all the long grass and cleared the brush around our place so the snakes won't come hang out! So we keep our eyes open!!
Thats all for now! I'll put some more up later!
Thanks for reading!
I miss you all!!
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