This morning I spent some time working on some sewing and sitting in on the classroom
Got a load of laundry on the line
A quick salad and butter fried chicken lunch
Jaira’s favorite place these days is on top of the wall that surrounds our house🙃 the wall is maybe 10” thick and 8 ft high? . She only plays on the back half, climbing trees to get up there,… I guess she’s enjoying the tail end of her childhood years before she hits teenager. After school today she did the last of her long division math homework up there..
Left the house shortly after 6:30, stopping by (night guard) Shunil’s place for the cakes that his daughter in law Shumi had baked and decorated. Then on to Kacchi Dine at Zero Point. https://maps.app.goo.gl/pRxt1aAvxVySfFYo8?g_st=ic I was so curious who his 10 chosen guests would be! They were his mom, aunt and 10-11 yr old son whose dad passed away earlier this year, Rajib and Chaity and Taritro(home of where we attend Chakrakhali S.S.) and then 2 other boys (relatives) Joy (another older S.S. boy) and another “cousin”. We just had no clue who he’d invite and when he asked for a plate of food to take home to his dad, I really wished we had done what we could to get his dad along also! His dad is in a wheelchair and runs a tea stall along the main highway thru Chakrakhali, There where all the rickshaw van drivers hang out, waiting for passengers…CSI supplied his dad’s wheelchair, back in the day, after his accident of falling from a tree and paralyzing from the waist down, is the story we were told.
Anyway, I asked Chaity for confirmation if we should have the cake 1st and yes. (That is their tradition) We put candles in only to have the waiters say no and something about the A.C. So we asked if they could just turn the AC off which they did but then said something about the glass.?. We wonder if maybe they thought we were gonna burn the candles all evening.???. We did end up taking the candles back out. We sang Happy Birthday, then Dudjoy put a piece in our mouths and his mother gave him a bite, according to tradition. Then Taritro jumped in there and cut the rest of the cake and gave everybody a slice. We’d brought 2 cakes for our crowd of 18, just in case he’d over invited(which we were not gonna be surprised if that had happened) and wanted to have enough for everybody. We sent the extra cake home with him… then he opened his gift from us, a wallet. And Chaity gave him 500 Taka equal to a good days wage for the common laborer around here(just under $5 USD… when put in that perspective it’s a bit shocking again of how little these folks get by on OR how extravagantly much the Western world operates🤯)
Then we all enjoyed a plate of mutton biryani. A pile of spicy flavored rice with a couple pcs of bone in, very chewy goat meat and a chunk of potato.. mutton is their general term for goat or sheep meat and is a good option for non beef eating Hindus.
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