After 2 weeks
Elle, Cals & Ness
Kam's bbq genius - last night at Vijayawada
Prisca who is now nicknamed 'Pretty'
We made it to the top!!The Vijayawada BW mountain
Amazing BW akka's - Vijee, Pushpa & Santoshi
The teachers & helpers for 10 - 14 year olds
The 'bind us together Lord' singing groupEunice, Elena, Susi, Ashee, Dahvina, Bahvana, etc
The full Sunday School
Laxmi & a much healthier looking friendThe operation she had a year ago worked! :-)
Laxmi, Laxshana & Ramesh (Urlam)
Laxmi, Laxshana & Ramesh (Urlam)
Activity Book time at SSOur time is flying by, after our initial time at Shunem and our first memorial in Hyd meeting....which was brilliant catching up with so many amazing old friends, we headed off the next day to Vijayawada Bible week.
When I walked across to the registering tables, so many of my friends came racing across from where they were to say hello! Many joyous regatherings. I felt like I'd come home again.
The week was tops, despite a few upset stomachs with the induction for the Oz girls..we had a fab time with our students, teaching them lessons from the book of Luke. I loved being back with my kids... Beck Paul, Leah Case and I did most of the work with the older group until half way through the week when Sharon turned up and he and Sunder then helped out. The were so amazing with the kids. I felt like it was what was supposed to be happening, these guys who had been constantly looked after for years, were now giving the support back to the kids. We had 38, 11-15 year olds, so it was a large class, but I knew the majority of them from previous years anyway.. the same ones were playing up.
Actually I learnt from Sharon and Sunder that if you carry a stick round with you, it makes a lot of difference to their behaviour. Beck took some of the group for drama, and the rest of us played games in drama time. I had some of the girls learn the song, 'bind us together, Lord' and it sounded just so beautiful when we got up to sing.
It was an amazing week. Every evening we had CYC and Beck took the games for this as well..this woman is so totally full of energy!
One of the spare afternoons a group of us went up the mountain to see the sights of Vijayawada. It was a hard climb, but when we arrived at the top, the view was totally worth it. I was surprised when the westerners reached the top before the Indians though.
On saturday my parents arrived which was nice to see them. Quite hectic for them, as they had flown straight in, had little sleep and then trained 6 hours to the bible week. But it was very worthwhile for marma to meet some of the bre and sisters before visiting them this week.
On the last evening, Cam treated us to a chicken bbq. Lovely to eat late at night, I miss our suppers over here...and then we all slept on the roof, lovely and high up where there was a lot of cooler air and less mozzies buzzing around us.
At the end of the bible week, Beck and I went with Santoshi to visak. by this stage I had developed a cold from somewhere, so rested on the floor of a train on the way to visak as there were no seats.
We arrived in Visak and after some rumaging, we found brother Babji, who took us to the compound where i collapsed.
Thankfully I found enough energy to get up the next morning. Beck and I went and visited Sunitha before she left for work, then went to visit Sheila and new family, and then went on to the ST colony. Twas good to see these people again. Unfortunately it was only so brief, and by the time Beck and i were ready to eat a good meal at Ashray, I was totally exhausted. We ordered, prayed, then they served, then I lay down on the red couch and tried to sleep. Then it was collapsing into bed for a good time with a good fever. Becks was an amazing nurse during that next 24 hours. I was pretty much useless. She went out the next day with Santoshi to make more visits, and Sunitha did visit me briefly before going to work, but I couldn't sit up for more than 10 mins without feeling nauseas.
Tuesday evening, Becks packed us both up, and we eventually managed to get on a bus. Thankfully the illness wasn't so long lasting, after about 3 hours of feeling awful, I errupted out of the bus window, and then proceeded to feel tonnes better..and was nearly all uphill from then!!! Not really very nice.
Back in Hyd, it was good to visit the shop across the road that morning. Beck and I deserved it.
The other girls had been enjoying time at Moinabad and Cals had had birthday celebrations there while we were in Visak.
Two days were spent in Hyd and then Thursday evening we headed off down to Bangalore for the KCY.
Can you believe it, after 4 trips to India, but also with two girls having fever, we got off at the wrong station in Bangalore and spent 80 more rupee's than we should have to arrive at the mission flat. Oh deah!!!
But that's about it for now - I'll update on the Karnataka Youth Weekend next I get on internet. It's time for brekky.
Tonight we head off to Rajahmundry to visit Praveen and Sirisha and then on to Srikakulam with Leah, Vanessa, Tim and Beck to meet up with mum and dad before heading up to Kolkata for our last week.
Love to you all.
Ab.
When I walked across to the registering tables, so many of my friends came racing across from where they were to say hello! Many joyous regatherings. I felt like I'd come home again.
The week was tops, despite a few upset stomachs with the induction for the Oz girls..we had a fab time with our students, teaching them lessons from the book of Luke. I loved being back with my kids... Beck Paul, Leah Case and I did most of the work with the older group until half way through the week when Sharon turned up and he and Sunder then helped out. The were so amazing with the kids. I felt like it was what was supposed to be happening, these guys who had been constantly looked after for years, were now giving the support back to the kids. We had 38, 11-15 year olds, so it was a large class, but I knew the majority of them from previous years anyway.. the same ones were playing up.
Actually I learnt from Sharon and Sunder that if you carry a stick round with you, it makes a lot of difference to their behaviour. Beck took some of the group for drama, and the rest of us played games in drama time. I had some of the girls learn the song, 'bind us together, Lord' and it sounded just so beautiful when we got up to sing.
It was an amazing week. Every evening we had CYC and Beck took the games for this as well..this woman is so totally full of energy!
One of the spare afternoons a group of us went up the mountain to see the sights of Vijayawada. It was a hard climb, but when we arrived at the top, the view was totally worth it. I was surprised when the westerners reached the top before the Indians though.
On saturday my parents arrived which was nice to see them. Quite hectic for them, as they had flown straight in, had little sleep and then trained 6 hours to the bible week. But it was very worthwhile for marma to meet some of the bre and sisters before visiting them this week.
On the last evening, Cam treated us to a chicken bbq. Lovely to eat late at night, I miss our suppers over here...and then we all slept on the roof, lovely and high up where there was a lot of cooler air and less mozzies buzzing around us.
At the end of the bible week, Beck and I went with Santoshi to visak. by this stage I had developed a cold from somewhere, so rested on the floor of a train on the way to visak as there were no seats.
We arrived in Visak and after some rumaging, we found brother Babji, who took us to the compound where i collapsed.
Thankfully I found enough energy to get up the next morning. Beck and I went and visited Sunitha before she left for work, then went to visit Sheila and new family, and then went on to the ST colony. Twas good to see these people again. Unfortunately it was only so brief, and by the time Beck and i were ready to eat a good meal at Ashray, I was totally exhausted. We ordered, prayed, then they served, then I lay down on the red couch and tried to sleep. Then it was collapsing into bed for a good time with a good fever. Becks was an amazing nurse during that next 24 hours. I was pretty much useless. She went out the next day with Santoshi to make more visits, and Sunitha did visit me briefly before going to work, but I couldn't sit up for more than 10 mins without feeling nauseas.
Tuesday evening, Becks packed us both up, and we eventually managed to get on a bus. Thankfully the illness wasn't so long lasting, after about 3 hours of feeling awful, I errupted out of the bus window, and then proceeded to feel tonnes better..and was nearly all uphill from then!!! Not really very nice.
Back in Hyd, it was good to visit the shop across the road that morning. Beck and I deserved it.
The other girls had been enjoying time at Moinabad and Cals had had birthday celebrations there while we were in Visak.
Two days were spent in Hyd and then Thursday evening we headed off down to Bangalore for the KCY.
Can you believe it, after 4 trips to India, but also with two girls having fever, we got off at the wrong station in Bangalore and spent 80 more rupee's than we should have to arrive at the mission flat. Oh deah!!!
But that's about it for now - I'll update on the Karnataka Youth Weekend next I get on internet. It's time for brekky.
Tonight we head off to Rajahmundry to visit Praveen and Sirisha and then on to Srikakulam with Leah, Vanessa, Tim and Beck to meet up with mum and dad before heading up to Kolkata for our last week.
Love to you all.
Ab.
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