Lunch at Pastor James’, Bangali Christian who we supply with Gospel pamphlets. He is founder of a small,20-25, Christian community in Khulna City. He knows pretty good English which he gives God the glory for🤍 his little community is nice in comparison to some.There’s even some “nice” landscaping (don’t even begin to think American style) No mud now in rainy season, concrete everywhere.
The girls and I went to the kitchen to see if there would be anything we could do to help and of course Sumita, his wife, wouldn’t let us. She also has a very nice kitchen in comparison to most that we see! She sat us down at their dining room table, another luxury, but to give you a picture… there is a doorway coming into this dining room from the hallway and a doorway on the other side going into the kitchen. There is just enough room to get around the table. A sink basin in one corner a china cabinet in another corner and a fridge in the other corner. She sat us teachers and girls down and served us homemade peanut “bars”(peanuts, gur (molasses), and sugar) and Sprite.
After visiting a bit with Jameson, their 13 yr old son who knows English quite well also! We went out with Annslie who’d heard a rooster crowing and was right away interested. Miss Aleigha chatted a bit with a lady out there working over her fire in an outdoor kitchen. And then we migrated back to James’s office where he had Jameson, play a song on his guitar. Then James played several on his harmonium, a Bangla style pianohttps://share.google/YqvLAPMdM5xDzaFfB . James left the room and we pulled up a couple songs on our phones and sang together till we were called to lunch. Beef, chicken, and shrimp dishes to eat over pilau rice(a very tasty, special, fine grain rice), Shobji(vegetable stir fry),…doy (yogurt) for dessert. There was So much food!! “Why didn’t you eat very much?” We tell them, Americans just can’t put away as much rice as Bangali’s!! Then we were shown to a couple bedrooms and instructed to rest while they ate lunch🤦🏼♀️ Eventually Lonnie and Annslie made their way back to James’s office and played around on his electric keyboards and harmonium.. the rest of us found our way over there soon also… taking turns trying out songs on the instruments. James, Sumita, and Jameson joined us. Bringing hot tea for everybody. Jameson brought in his soccer ball to play with the littles a bit. We had a prayer yet and then left.
To Boro Bazar for plexiglass
And Lonnie let us ladies go fabric shopping also😍 Miss Aleigha and I got a matching pc, I spotted a pc that I thought would make a fine shirt for Lonnie✨, some new ornas, the girls were begging for hijabs🧕 (Muslim head wear) so the girls and I each ended up with one(even a little white one with little pink roses for Annslie, she’s tickled pink🥰 these girls love to dress up like Muslim ladies plus 🤞🏼maybe Kobid will let us come visit his staunch Muslim family if we’re covered from head to toe.?.?. He has suggested maybe it could be possible on those terms.. we shall see..
fruit and veggie market
That night at 10:00🫣,after we got the littles put to bed, we had our 1st school board mtg to go over things and make sure we’re on the “same page” for the the new school year.
