Bonus points for finding us in that picture.
We’ve had dongle issues again so we’re back in the cyber cafe. Have had a busy few days so I’ll give you a quick update, we went up to North Goa for some sightseeing on Saturday, visited two amazing churches and a museum, then a famous lighthouse which is apparently used in lots of Indian films. We also got to go to KFC which was deluxe.
Then in the evening we were invited to Reika’s house for dinner with the other teachers Renuka & Sarouj, their families and the OM sisters. It was a lovely evening and really nice to be able to meet up with everyone outside of the day care centre & meet their families, plus eat some amazing food – Reika is the cook at the day care centre & makes some of the best food in India. We ended the evening eating fresh fruit ice cream in the street at 11pm after Renuka & her husband decided to treat us all on the way back to our houses J Below is Sarouj (left) with Reika and her family.
Then on Sunday we went back to the English speaking church & led the Sunday school, did the lost sheep again as our resources are diminishing & it’s so hard to get hold of any crafty stuff out here at all. After that we had an afternoon off so we made the most of it on the beach, not that I have any sort of tan to show for it.
Yesterday we went to the day care centre in Birla for the 3rd time, and taught them Daniel & the lions, then went to Renuka’s for dinner where she made us a ROAST DINNER! Francis’ wife Alison is from England so she taught Renuka how to make a roast, and it was soooo good. They make it slightly differently out here but she had nailed the potatoes, and it was so nice to eat something other than rice for one evening! I’ve written her up a cake recipe so I’m hoping to make one with her before we leave so she knows what she’s doing, she says she can never get them right haha. The picture below is us with Sarouj, Renuka, Reika & their children.
Today we did our last teaching session with the Margao day care children because tomorrow we’re decorating biscuits with them & having a picnic J We did the parable of the precious pearl and made treasure boxes, and also took some big bags & had a sack race which was highly amusing – we took a video but its takes too long to upload so I’ll do it once we’re home. Needless to say the bags were bigger than some of the children so they were slightly dubious to begin with as to what we were going to do with them; one particularly small boy actually cried when we put him in it!
Sarouj is amazing at henna so she’s going to do it for both of us, she started with Lydia’s today & she’s doing mine tomorrow, it looks amazing I can’t wait. Hopefully it will stay on for long enough so we can show people when we get back to England, although that might mean we don’t wash our hands for a few days haha.
Think that’s all the major things to catch you up on, other than that a week today we’ll be home – it’s gone so quickly! We’ll be sad to leave; we’ve met some wonderful people & done so many amazing things but we miss everyone at home, the food, even the rain so we’re looking forward to it at the same time.
Bye for now,
Amy x
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