Sun. July 20 🇧🇩 🧑🏽‍🍳👨🏽‍🎓

 Power All day😊😊

Lonnie took Jaira and Annslie with him into Khulna to the bank.

I did some mending

Made rice and La Ha, pulled out leftover chicken, dhal, and cabbage salad, and cut up pineapple and grapes. Harun Brother, who came over from Tala, and Kobid Brother were here for a 1:30 lunch. And then the men discussed help for Harun’s mother’s medical needs. 

After they left, I made shortcake with mangos and ice cream.

Lonnie went for a walk. Bout the time he got back Sunil(our night guard) showed up and wondered if we could come visit at his house.

So we followed him down the road to his house where his daughter in law warmly welcomed us. Sunil’s wife has been gone for 14? Yrs. His son and daughter in law live with him. His 8? Yr old grandson hung out in the bedroom, a bit under the weather coughing. This dau-n -l bakes and decorates cakes professionally and they wanted to feed us so they put a small table with plastic chairs around, aimed the fan at us, and brought out cake and “biscuits”, then Bangla noodles -which are appreciated by all of this family, for sure if they make them jhal kom (less spicy). After a bite to eat I asked to see her kitchen, they have recently added on to it in the last yr. The house has concrete floor but the kitchen is dirt floor. It consisted of a table, a food cabinet, several shelves with kitchen essentials, she even has a blender, hand mixer,etc.! In the added on part was her mud oven and she also has a 2-burner gas stove. I commented on her very tidy and clean kitchen. She says,” I love my kitchen, I love my house, I love my family. I am a housewife and I do it with my heart.”💖 next she took us to her father in laws bedroom (which, he is night guard at our place every night except Fri unless we are out of town) this is where she has her small tabletop oven set up, a fridge, cake decorating supplies.. it is also their prayer room. They are Hindu so, a shrine with a lot of little characters, small white flowers strewn around… it is quite a feeling as we are shown this idol worship.. about this time her husband comes home from work-an electrician in the nearby village of Batiaghata. This lady wanted to show me her room yet. So we sat and visited on her bed. She showed me her s t a c k s of clothes neatly folded. She says she mostly wears maxi dresses? but also the traditional shari’s.. I’m a little confused thinking maybe I misunderstood her cause I’ve never seen her wear a dress, always the traditional garb.?. She does some of her own sewing. She proceeded to show me pictures on her phone of cakes she’s decorated and what the occasion. In the meantime we over heard Sunil in the next room having his evening prayer… blowing a trumpet, ringing a bell… Lonnie was ready to go, it was dark by now. Sunil walked us back out to the road. On the way home, Pim(peem) over took us, he speaks quite fluent English, he’s in class 11, headed to college in a month, majoring in arts and history, he often hangs out with our day guard Tulshi, tries to win Annslie but with no luck so far..