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| Saturday, April 30, 2005
Hail in Bangladesh?
Thursday, April 28, 2005
 Yesterday an unusual thing happened and it hailed. Hail is very rare here (not like in SD where it happens often in summer!). It was like Christmas on the streets as young and old came out to see the strange white ice. People collected it to melt down and put on skin disorders. Others sucked on the hail also hoping to be healed. The hail was about the size of a dime. We appreciated the drastic drop in temperature, from over 90F to 74F in a matter of minutes. posted by Thomas at 9:42 PM HSC Exams (High School)
Tuesday, April 26, 2005
 Two of the older boys at Home of Love are doing their last minute cramming for their upcoming 12th grade exams. In Bangladesh to have passed the 10th grade exams is already a very big achievement, only about 30% of the student population pass and are allowed to continue to "college" which is 11th and 12th grade. The two boys are nervous. Genodoe is 21 years old and is taking the commerce tract and Gabriel is doing science. They are both from the tribal areas around Chittagong. The exams will primarily be held for one month but will be extended after that for labs. Exams are held every other day to provide time for studying, thus the extended period. posted by Colleen at 7:59 AM A spice garden
Saturday, April 23, 2005
 Not so many of you are able to get your spices right out of the garden, like we are. Presently we have a bay leaf tree (I don't know the sophisticated name), different kinds of red and green hot chilies and a cinnamon tree growing. The latter is the one on this picture; the bark is scraped off for the spice. I scraped some off yesterday and had a fragrant fingernail all day. posted by Thomas at 8:59 AM Work begins on study room
Tuesday, April 19, 2005
 Today the workers began to pound and erect the steel bars necessary for the construction of our upstairs study room/library. It's exciting! They hope to be done in about 4 months depending on the rainy season that is coming up soon. Next we need to begin thinking and praying about furnishing our library with books for all ages. If you would like to help in this effort please contact us. If boxes were shipped over via ship it wouldn't be so expensive. Maybe some families could go through their books and send some that aren't being used. English language books are fine. posted by Colleen at 7:46 AM Beauty teaches preschool
Tuesday, April 12, 2005
 Many of you remember and have prayed for Beauty when she was badly burned last year. Now she is doing very well and is our preschool teacher. She teaches Isita and Asha for a couple of hours each day in addition to helping with laundry, cooking and overseeing the smaller children. Isita and Asha are only 3 years old and are not interested in writing their ABC's at all, but in this society school begins very early and is not to be taken lightly. posted by Colleen at 9:09 PM A day-laborer does hard labor
Tuesday, April 05, 2005
 This man is what we call a day-laborer, he gets paid by the day and his work is only temporary. He is building a work/store room where we can put our tools. Thomas commented that his office was getting overfilled with things and that a household this big needed some more space for tools, supplies, left over paint and such so this room was designed to hold some of those things. It's our desire to teach the children to put things back after they use them but if there is not a real designated spot it's difficult for everyone. We try to bring more order in many sectors but don't want to crush the Bengali spirit, forcing them to become Germans/Americans. We want them to be Kingdom citizens.  posted by Colleen at 7:59 AM Field trip
 everyone is getting out of our rented bus  On Easter, we took all the children (except the 4 little ones) to an amusement park. Boy, did they have fun! The park is a new establishment in Chittagong and quite nice. The children were paired up older with younger and given tickets for the different rides. It was fun to see the older ones taking such good care of their brother or sister. If you would have been there you would have seen big teenage boys waving to their child with each merry-go ring. The Bengali culture of togetherness and family is something we in the West could learn much from! After laughing, running, riding and jumping we had a snack and headed for Fatirabad, our town's name, in a rented bus. With 60 people to think of it was a good feeling to have them all back in the bus, with none missing and headed for home!  This was a "first" for most of the children and staff  posted by Colleen at 12:29 AM
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