Home sweet pollution

It's a crazy mixture of emotions that you can feel in this place in Kolkata. We have a gorgeous place, in a lovely area to live in with everything you could want within walking distance... and I have a room of my own here for the next couple of weeks that I can call home, but at the same time, it's still the overpopulated city, with lots of pollution that constantly makes me choke, and there is lots of political unrest in the state... lots of looting and last week in the city in Suddur st and Park street buses were burnt and taxi's windows' were broken. That's not so far away, and Mum and I usually do our shopping in New Market which isn't more than a block away from where everything was going on last week. Our Lord is going to bring peace and safety to this earth. Pray that it is soon.

Daryl Madden & Jono Williams, both originally from Perth were on the same train as me, so when I woke up the next morning, it was cool to spend some time with them, although I still did have 3 Catholic sisters come and sit next to me and talk to me and ask if I was travelling alone!!! Glad that I could say I had some company but in another carriage, or boogey as they like to call it.

We played 2 handed 500 until the breeze coming through the window annoyed us too much. It was also good to have some quiet time on the train, as the past few weeks had been full of people, and I find it refreshing to just look out the window and watch Indian countryside whirl by, so much of God's beauty to be seen all around me on the train.

We celebrated our arrival in Kolkata by heading to Amazon, quite a goodly restaurant for people who are too tired to cook, and the pars weren't home so we couldn't cook ourselves anyway.

Today is the 24th and our new family have just eaten dinner together and finished the readings... establishing that like Paul, we have to teach sound doctrine while we're here. There were many stories going round last night from the others recent trip to Contai, but I think the funniest one was hearing about a Prophesying cat:-) Interesting. I think we should make it the mission flat mascot.

We're planning a trip to Gosaba for next week. Please pray for our safety, because that area is where the Bengali tigers roam... I need to have faith and trust in whatever God's will is.