Tues. Feb. 18

 This morning I boiled eggs to go with our bagels. So far I’d only scrambled them and they tasted normal. But boiled, their dark yellow yolks had a”different whang “ as Lonnie put it and he and I didn’t need very many halves🙃 The girls didn’t seem to notice too much tho!

  Today was a laying low day for Lonnie. He was not feeling 100% with a belly ache.

We endeavored to put the school books back in order and get the current ones out.

Maddie and Jaira cleaned up after breakfast.

I got started on the laundry.

Today we used our rooftop lines for much faster drying. Just 2 flights of stairs, good exercise😉

After lunch Miss Shana came to get organized with the girls’ schoolbooks and prepare for starting school with them in the morning. She’s gonna have a couple days with just them to get the feel of it. Then Layton, Jared’s 1st grader will join. The classroom is a room in this guesthouse next to the dining room.

The girls spent the afternoon painting, reading, and answering Miss Shana’s questions about their school books.

We showered and walked over to Jared’s at 4:30. To ride with them to singing at The Clinic that Jared oversees. We took the high way/toll road but then turned into the depths of the city. Wow. What an experience. The last part of the way was driving thru an alley just a bit wider than the van with concrete buildings rising several stories high on either sides, dodging dogs, pedestrians, piles of concrete powder?, a man going thru a pile of trash, and a really narrow spot with a wire hanging down to the ground that caught on the mirror and Lonnie had to reach out his window to un hook. We wound our way back in the concrete structures til Jared backed into a spot and we all piled out and went in.

Two of our sisters, Josna and Sumita, work there and also live there. They cook for the patients. There was one patient tonight with her mom, a girl who’d had plastic surgery to repair her nose. Effects of cleft palette. We greeted the sisters, toured the clinic, then gathered in the front room. Sat in a circle of chairs and sang for a half hr or so. In Bangla🤪 but some were familiar tunes ☺️

Maybe halfway thru Miriam joined us. Another lady that works there that can speak pretty decent English.

After prayer, that Jared prayed in Bangla(with a cheat sheet😉) Miriam gave me a bouquet of flowers🥰, they sell them at intersections when the traffic is stopped. 

Then we headed to go find some supper. Traffic jams had us stopped several times and vendors came by offering all sorts. Strawberries were offered several times, they did look really good! Or a man would just put his hands around his face with his face against the window and try to see in thru the tinted windows! Annslie was quite unnerved by it all, “scary”. But then she was pointing and grinning! There next to us was a man on a motorcycle with helmet. I asked if if that looked like Papa? I was glad she could have a happy sight😌 in all the strangeness.

We made it to Herfeys for supper (it was right next to the coffee place we went to the other evening). This place is American fast food. We got hamburgers, chicken nuggets, and fries. Oh, and Miss Shana got fried chicken tenders. Jared’s got a couple cups of garlic mayo for dipping fries in along with ketchup. While we waited for our food, Jaira, Layton, Shania, and Annslie enjoyed the play area in the corner of the dining area. Of course the experience was complete with observing the Bengalis around us! Some very fancy ladies! And a unique thing to observe was how a whole party would migrate from table to table while they waited for their food. They were at their 3rd location in the restaurant by time we left! 

Home to bed.