Sunday Afternoons

This is singing practice on Sunday afternoon. Ravinee is sitting to the left, Abigail (11), red shirt, braiding Ellen's hair while singing, Ellen, and on the right, Christina(16). This is poor little Anthony, Priscilla and Abigail's youngest brother. He fractured his leg from the knee to the ankle, and can't walk. He gets carried everywhere or else doesn't go. He's a bright spot in my day. Loves to play with my hair and give me new styles. I am just fine with that!

This is Christina (16) to the left, and Priscilla (15) to the right. Notice that Christina is using my bread knife to pretend she's stabbing Priscilla. These girls can be so silly sometimes, and I love them!

We spend most Sunday afternoons at the #57 village with the teenage girls there. We leave the #68 church service, and ride back with them all in the church bus. That is the bus that they cram 40 people into. It's a crazy ride:) We eat lunch with either Brother Moti's family, or Sister Shirley and her family. We then teach the girls singing for a couple hours, and then we catch a bus back to Line Path D, where we live, and teach singing at 4:30 to our church.

This past Sunday (February 22) Ellen and I split up and she went to Shirley's and I went to Moti's because our presence was wanted at both places. We decided we are not one unit, so we can split up. Then I walked down to Shirley's house with Ravinee so we could sing with everyone. This is Brother Moti's children, Raymond (19) and Ravinee (12).

This is Brother Moti and his wife Gasmine. (pronounced Jasmine) We kind of feel like they are our adopted family, Gasmine takes care of little things in life that our mom would help out with, like when we show up at her door drenching wet, and she goes and finds dry clothes for us to wear and feeds us, yeah, they're basically family.

This is me sitting on their railing. They have this sweet porch that just got finished being built, and it is so breezy up there. I am sitting on the railing (my favorite seat) that goes all around their porch.

Ravinee! She is such a sweet girl, and hangs around Ellen and I quite often. She takes piano lessons from us as well, and catches on pretty fast.

Gasmine preparing salad for lunch to go with the cook-up, which is rice, blackeyes, shallots (green onions) seasonings, beef chunks, and spicy pepper. It is yummy.