Fri. June 19

Lonnie made the grocery run for the day with Shanto at 6:??

 8:00 Breakfast at CSS

We rolled in about a half hour late with everybody standing around waiting on us🤦🏼‍♀️

A Bangla breakfast of kichuri(rice and lentil mix) boiled egg,

9:00 assembly time in the conference room. A normal Bangla church service with singing, opening and a message. 

Side note: both the conference room and dining hall have A.C. 👍🏼👍🏼

Another note on the attendees: only a fraction of the members showed up this year😏 3 households have seriously ailing family members, a couple have work schedules that are quite binding, etc. But we did have a few guests with Miriam from Dhaka, Shanto’s employee’s family (a younger couple with 2 young girls-6 yrs and 2? Yrs., and Eric a young man who hung out with Antoor(Shanto’s 18 yr old son). Eric’s teenage sister was around for the meals(my understanding is that their parent (s) were the cooks..?.) Eric’s sister reminded me So much of my oldest sister’s boro meye(oldest dau.) a dark haired, brown skinned version with such similar looks and mannerisms🥰

11:00 tea time. Back at the dining hall, which is in the same building but a short walk outside, we were served hot tea and “biscuits” (little boughten cookies).

Kaylee and I also took this time to go to the Sisters room to have them help us put our Sari🥻 on. They had helped the teachers put theirs on at breakfast.

Members mtg till 1:00 lunch.

Rice, curry, and  “salad”(cucumber slices, lime wedges, chunks of red onion, whole hot peppers 🌶️)

Afternoon break… the missionaries went back to the house to put the littles down for naps.

Back at CSS for 4:00 tea and biscuits

As we started gathering for the evening service there was all sudden some racket and commotion coming from the A.C. up on the wall.. And What Do You Know?!!? It’s a snake!! Wriggling around up in there getting descaled. The grounds men were notified and they came in with their clubs😅 It took a bit to extricate but then we were able to continue with our service

7:30 supper.. another delicious meal… Rice, fish (pongas) curry that was absolutely delightful, Dal, and “salad”.

Back at the house, we enjoyed another late night visiting with our fellows