Bugs Life

First of all these are our friends John and Mandy, who we were so blessed to have met. They are two of the loveliest, most generous people and we learned so much from them in the short time we spent with them. They are now back in Mumbai, but we will hopefully see them again soon – maybe even in England :)

Tuesday we taught the children the story of Daniel & the lions den, which resulted in some of the sweetest lions ever, although some of them did ask what flower they were supposed to be!

We also played Twister with them, we took 4 mats over so the children could all play, it was mayhem and we nearly wet ourselves as we watched the teachers picking the children up like starfish and placing their limbs onto the right colours – couldn’t help but be reminded of the part in Bambi where Thumper has to prop him up! And also couldn’t resist the temptation to make up a few as well to cause extra tangling :)

Yesterday we were lucky enough to join a literacy class held in one of the slums, five women attend & they are the mothers of some of the children in the day care centre. It took place in one of the women’s house, which was one tiny room smaller than Lydia's bedroom, in which she lives with her husband and three children. They cannot read or write, or speak any English, so the OM sisters are teaching them to write in Hindi at the moment, but me & Lyds taught them some of the body parts and colours in English, can’t help but think they might be calling their mouth a ‘mouse’ for a while haha. After that we shared our testimonies with them and heard how they had become Christians, and got to pray for them as well. We spent some time chatting with them afterwards too which was lovely, Lydia came over all emotional and ended up crying! The OM girls are leaving on Sunday but we enjoyed ourselves so much we’ve asked if we can go back next week and see the class again, hopefully will get some pictures then too, don’t have any at the moment. We went for a leaving biryani for the OM girls in the evening, from the left we have Veena, Thanshim and Bhagya.

This morning we were back at the Margao day care centre again, teaching them the creation story. Started off the morning with a casual masala and coriander porridge (as you do), then made some pretty butterflies with paints & crayons to brighten up the classroom. The children loved it & the crafts all turned out really well, they can all say butterfly now as well :) They’d never seen pipe cleaners before either so they thought they were amazing, we played some games with those too afterwards.

Forgot to say, we had our second major bug invasion on Tuesday evening. The first was the ant infestation which occurred last week & thankfully has not reoccurred, but just as we were starting to feel safe again (and domesticated as well because Francis had lent us his toaster), we walked into our room to see a pair of massive antennae poking out of the toaster. Belonging to the biggest cockroach ever. If the wire hadn’t been so short we were planning on plugging it in and cooking the stupid bug, but this was not possible, so we resorted to knocking on Maria’s (the guest house owner) door & asking her to get it out haha. She was shaking it for a loooong time before it finally popped out, but me & Lyds didn’t look at it until she’d squashed it & assured us it wouldn’t be chilling in our kitchen appliances any more.

Think that’s all for now, bye!

Amy x