Oh IndiA!

I capitalized the A in India on purpose. We were fortunate to have a couple of friends come and stay with us for about 4 days this week. It was really cool to have them here. Well, we were eating dinner one evening, and unfortunately a piece of dog hair had flown into someone's macaroni and cheese. I said, "Oh, I hate that. It is because we have to have to the fans on high, and it blows the dog hair everywhere." That is when Julie said, "Oh, India." It then became a little game that turned into a song. This is how it went:

Oh, IndiA (emphasis on the last syllable)
Dog hair in my food....Oh, IndiA
Humidity....Oh, IndiA
Power Outages....Oh, IndiA

We would go around the table and insert a line. She even played a little music with it. E has an instrument that we bought at India week last year. It is similar to a violin. Well, this became a fun little distraction over the next day.

We packed a lot into a few short days, but I think they have a good idea of how things are here in India. It took us many hours to just shop at a couple of stores and have lunch.

E and N are swimming every morning. They get up at 5:15a, get dressed, eat, and head out the door. This is M-F. They will also sometimes swim after school. E will not be able to be on the swim team because she is too young, but if Noah has good times, he should make the team. We will have a local meet which all the kids that are meeting the practice requirements will be allowed to swim. The kids who make the team will be traveling to Mumbai.

M has decided to join MUN - a debate club. I am not sure of the details, but she seems pretty excited about it. She really is into debating everything right now, so I am sure this will be a great activity for her. I feel most days that we are in court - she is the prosecutor and I am the defense attorney. Back and forth, on everything! I am sure this is an asset to her personality, but it is tiring for me.

Charles is just working of course. I have been doing some papercrafting projects, printing pictures, and will be showing another person around this weekend. Seems funny that I am now on the other end of that. I am no longer the new person.

We are starting to get some rain as the monsoon season will start soon. I guess it is in the north right now, but we really had a good storm Tuesday night. The streets were flooded, and it smelled bad from all the garbage. We may need a raft to get to school when the Monsoons start! I did not buy rain boots since they were too heavy and took up too much room, but they sure would be handy on the days that it rains. There were also some huge frogs when it rained.

I cannot disappoint all of you who like my bug stories, so here is another one. Wednesday night, I needed put some of the recycling outside. I opened the door to the back where we keep the box, and noticed a pretty big bug. It was on its back and still moving. It could not turn over, so I knew I was okay. The next day we noticed a lot of little flying bugs on the front porch and out the back door. The large bug was still there as well. Wahid told me that some people eat the large bugs. I made a nasty face and he just laughed. I am not sure how anyone could eat something like that.

One more story. We went to pick up Charles from his training on Wednesday. We entered the parking lot, but we had to wait. There was a line. I was looking out the window, and there was a ditch with some wires and garbage next to a little restaurant. Pretty soon I noticed a large rat looking for food. Oh that is so gross!

Have a great day everyone!