Indian Wedding

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!