Today was Bani and Martinia’s birthday. Martinia is the 14-year-old daughter of our chef Shati and Bani is a 20 year old that is going to take over the medical clinic when she finishes nursing school. Birthday’s are very special in Bangladesh and it usually entails the birthday person to give presents to everyone they care about. Bani got the all kids treats as well as us missionaries and Shati threw a huge party for her daughter. Everything was centered around these two birthday girls.
In art we made hand turkeys for thanksgiving. We explained to the kids what Thanksgiving was and how everyone ate turkeys so they were special to us (I never realized how weird that sounded until it came out of my mouth in class). Then we taught them the turkey song “If God can love Turkeys than God can love you. Because you are a turkey and I am one too” (yay for camp songs) we also taught them how to make a noise like a turkey (which they did for the rest of the day). Most of the kids made their turkeys for Martinia or Bani so they probably have 20 turkeys now.
Martinia’s birthday party was super fun. Tuli seemed to be the entertainment coordinator while we waited for everyone to get there (it took about 45 min or more for everyone to get there). She began this game where we passed the balloon and if the music stopped while you were holding it you were suppose to get up front and do something in front of everyone. Some of the kids got it and they danced or sang but then Tuli thought it would be funny if she made all the older people do it. She made Bob and Kerri get up front and play the piano while Kerri dance. It was hilarious and all the Bengali people loved it. After making them do it twice she dragged the Waid’s up there as well and then the three missionary girls; we did the chicken dance. Whoever said that white Adventist people shouldn’t dance was probably right, it isn’t pretty hahaha. After that, Tisha (one of my second graders) came up and did a cultural Bengali dance for martinia, I was very impressed with her skills. It was the dance that she was trying to teach me the other night but then just laughed at me instead.
They brought all of us cake, ice cream, oranges, and this Indian trail mix cereal. They gave us huge portions and now I feel so over stuffed. The people here must think Americans need a lot of food because they always make me eat way past my limit. It was hilarious to see some of the kids get ice cream; I’m not sure how often they get that sort of treat. Since they are Bengali they ate it with their hands and they kept saying “tunda” (cold) and making weird faces as they danced about because they couldn’t stand how cold it was in their mouths. I must admit it was the funniest thing I’ve seen in a while.
Random Fact: Saborna came up to me and told me to cow some of her potatoes chips.. I was very confused but then I discovered that the word “cow” means eat in Bengali. I cowed a lot today.
I hope that all of you have a blessed Sunday! Mine was great!
In art we made hand turkeys for thanksgiving. We explained to the kids what Thanksgiving was and how everyone ate turkeys so they were special to us (I never realized how weird that sounded until it came out of my mouth in class). Then we taught them the turkey song “If God can love Turkeys than God can love you. Because you are a turkey and I am one too” (yay for camp songs) we also taught them how to make a noise like a turkey (which they did for the rest of the day). Most of the kids made their turkeys for Martinia or Bani so they probably have 20 turkeys now.
Martinia’s birthday party was super fun. Tuli seemed to be the entertainment coordinator while we waited for everyone to get there (it took about 45 min or more for everyone to get there). She began this game where we passed the balloon and if the music stopped while you were holding it you were suppose to get up front and do something in front of everyone. Some of the kids got it and they danced or sang but then Tuli thought it would be funny if she made all the older people do it. She made Bob and Kerri get up front and play the piano while Kerri dance. It was hilarious and all the Bengali people loved it. After making them do it twice she dragged the Waid’s up there as well and then the three missionary girls; we did the chicken dance. Whoever said that white Adventist people shouldn’t dance was probably right, it isn’t pretty hahaha. After that, Tisha (one of my second graders) came up and did a cultural Bengali dance for martinia, I was very impressed with her skills. It was the dance that she was trying to teach me the other night but then just laughed at me instead.
They brought all of us cake, ice cream, oranges, and this Indian trail mix cereal. They gave us huge portions and now I feel so over stuffed. The people here must think Americans need a lot of food because they always make me eat way past my limit. It was hilarious to see some of the kids get ice cream; I’m not sure how often they get that sort of treat. Since they are Bengali they ate it with their hands and they kept saying “tunda” (cold) and making weird faces as they danced about because they couldn’t stand how cold it was in their mouths. I must admit it was the funniest thing I’ve seen in a while.
Random Fact: Saborna came up to me and told me to cow some of her potatoes chips.. I was very confused but then I discovered that the word “cow” means eat in Bengali. I cowed a lot today.
I hope that all of you have a blessed Sunday! Mine was great!
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