And we finally get to meet “our” (from neighboring post, Gopalgonj) dear Miss Aleigha’s family🤗
They all came to Khulna in the morning and shopped fabric, etc at Boro Bazar then to our house for lunch. The afternoon passed Way too quickly! But it is So nice to get just a tiny bit acquainted with her mom and dad, Curtis and Christy Froese from Manitoba and younger sisters Aysia 16 and Gabrielle 11. We’d had fun preparing and making lunch for them in the morning. Sonora Sunset Chicken Salad (Down Home Southern Cookin), apple sauce, and cheesecake squares.
The mom and sisters went up to the roof with the teachers and school children to do their 1st Christmas program practice of the upcoming season.
Krystal and I shared the “joys and woes” of life on the field while the men visited. Then we all went for a little walk into the village showing them the church house and visiting with the villagers that were around.
And then, with the days getting so short, the driver wanted to leave by 4:30 so they wouldn’t have to drive in the dark
We had 2 invites for 7:00 tonight.. Come to find out they were both memorials of deceased grandfather/father.. we went to Topu’s 1st where there were people in her yard doing their yearly Hindu rituals in honor of Topu’s grandfather who left this life 14? years ago, she took us over to her neighbor Attoy’s house and served us the typical fare of rice with several rounds of thin lentil soups and curries. And then meeshti balls. Then we all got in our van and went to Shanto’s. Gentry fell asleep on the way, slept thru the evening, and put him right in his bed when we got home, sleeping til morning!.. one for the books
At Shanto’s, maybe we’ll just say, we covet your prayers as we navigate Bangla? tradition and our native members…
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