Each day is filled with new site and happenings that it's hard to even jot it all down...but here's a little piece of it:
Shishu Bhaven (Mother Teresa's Orphanage for small children):
I had been working with the physically/mentally handicapped children but yesterday, moved to the "healthy" children part. It's filled to the brim with 100 children under the age of about 7. As I walk in they all rush to me with open arms yelling, "Auntie" (which is what they call all volunteer women)--I wish I could pick them all up!! One little guy was just finishing his snack and offered the rest to me. I helped in the 2 yr old room of 21 kids who after they ate, all sat on one long potty as I counted them over and over until they were done. After putting various shoes on each, it was off to the playground. Now I know where some of the equipment the USA deemed unsafe is!! See saws, wooden swings, maypoles and cement slides with no rails--all surrounded by a cleverly painted wall of happy children and Sisters. The kids play vigorously as the hired ladies sit on benches combing lice out of hair and cleaning out ears. Gotta love it.
Did you know:
- Hindu turban is round. Sikh is round with a point, and the Muslin wear a small cap with no bill??
- Many Indians eat their food with their fingers--rice with sauce, mushed potatoes & beans, etc....and seldom do you see them use napkins...how do they manage that??
- One man can ride a bicycle down a busy, hectic, rough and narrow road with six dead chickens hanging from his handle bars and another ten tied to his fender...again how???
- Great recycling here as most food containers are simply newspapers folded up. Don't know if they were read first??
- You can make a bowl out of leaves by drying them on a round form...then just throw them on the ground with the rest of the trash when done!! Think Green!!
Jane
