Christmas 2012

Merry Christmas! Joseph's last Christmas in Thailand ... at least for a while.

Christmas Week 2012

Full November

From a trip to Thailand and rural Maharashtra to dengue and chemistry experiments.... November has been FULL.

 Nafisa's Egypt project

 Chiang Mai for conference about doing business in Asia.

 Teaching English to some Iraqi friends

 Amravati city for breakfast after a looong train ride

Danielle...doing ....something :-)   after making quicksand out of cornstarch.
I've got dengue...week #2 and Merrilea has the flu...maybe bronchitis by now. It's been a full month.  The Christmas tree is up, thanks to Danielle and Sarah!

Diwali out our Window

An annual event! The last apartment we stayed in for over 5 years was in the thick of it.

Manipur in Cool October!

Oct 10-15th I went to Imphal, Manipur with a close friend. It was a wonderful trip! Thanks Rengsomshong for showing me your home place!

 

 

A Guava tree!

Daughters in India . . .

Danielle's painted nails.  In my day, I thought they were supposed to be all the same color!

Trying to get unnoticed in community!

Nafisa and I finally dusted off and played with Lincoln Logs today! One of my fav childhood toys!

Sarah has come!

At the beginning of September, Sarah, Danielle's cousin from upper-state NY came for a few months. This Sunday was a celebration of culture at our church...so the girls got all decked-out!

 Yes, that's D's cell phone in her hand. She doesn't go anywhere without it!

 Now we know where all that sand in the house came from! Our complex is doing an addition to the garden...if there's a pile of dirt, Nafisa is not too far from it!

 Friends learning how to share The story with colors!

 Chalk board paint and the back board of a frame + Danielle's creativity and walla!

The Girls

Merrilea, Danielle and Nafisa go every other Saturday to Santvana's children's home.  In this pic, Merrilea is giving Bibles to girls who memorized 6 verses word-perfect and the books of the OT in order.

Barrista coffee shop on MG Road for relax in the A/C!

A little bit of August and September

Our apartment complex getting a well dug for drinking water! It started bringing up real dirty cement dust then rock dust for quite a while.... 22 pipes - about 120 meters down. Our patios were REALLY dusty after that but it was worth the education. Not sure who decided to dig it on the side of the parking lot.... ;-(

 At an NCF Family Picnic...lots of fun with friends  - short and tall!