Walking into Doors, Travel, Christmas and Other Things

So, as you might have noticed I have been out of touch for a while. Let me try to give a brief chronology of the past few weeks.

As you might know, B's birthday was on the 7th of December. The sad thing was that he had to help escorting some students down the hill and left early that morning, at about 5am. Just before he left he told me that I should get my eye checked.

That brings me to the night before...busy evening, dinner and communion, with Brian working until about 11:30pm. And I was teaching the village workers that week as well. And school finished Wednesday that week. I am trying to explain what happened late on the 6th...I walked into a door. Not a little bump, oops I feel silly hope no one saw me, but a full fledged bash in the dark, ow that hurt, why is my forehead wet kind of bump.

B helped bandage my gash, just above my eyebrow...incidentally, he had to use Disney Princess Bandages that his mom brought for the girls since I didn't know where any regular ones were. And then he left with that little word of advice, get someone to check that...

To be perfectly honest, if he hadn't said anything I would have skipped it since I had some ladies coming over and had to teach that afternoon...

But I ended up with four stitches and a big bandage and being late for my session...argh!!!!

The worst part of it all is that you can't hide a wound like that...and the on going joke was that B smacked me a little harder than he should have. And then I had to sheepishly admit that I really did walk into a door...how dumb am I???

So then after surviving the weekend we left to meet B's parents in Delhi. Then we all flew to the beach. We spent nearly four days together before they had to rush back to catch their flight home. But the girls had so much fun playing with their grandparents and cousin in the ocean, collecting starfish and shells , and eating all kinds of exotic sea food, crab, calamari, snapper, shark...

I funniest thing was when R ordered a crab. It came on a plate, whole and intact. As I was helping her get the meat out, she turned to me and quietly said, "This is grossing me out a bit."

Now we have moved so that B can be part of a Writer's Workshop. At first I thought it was going to be a big headache...venues changed and the cost ranged from free to ridiculous... But it is turning out to be more of a blessing. We are staying in a very low budget hotel, the room is big enough for a double bed with some walking space, but fortunately after fitting six of us into that tight space for a couple of nights we were able to get a second room for the big girls. But the blessing is that they have made arrangements with a five-star hotel so that we can use their private beach and swimming pools!!!

So the big girls a nearly able to swim...there is no where for them to learn up on the hillside. And at the beach we are less of a spectacle since there are lots of other foreigners around. I must add that in the beginning the big girls felt shy being around so many foreigners!!! I think they are beginning to process what it will be like when we return home in the summer.

Well, I am off...

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! I will share more with you all in 2007!!!