Day 11
We went to church this morning, we managed to go to an English speaking service; as requested by the girls. It was a very good service with a variety of people taking part, the preacher spoke very well with a good message, all the songs were in English the we all particularly enjoyed "strength will rise"! And the service was only 2 hours!! An improvement on last week said to the girls!
It was then back to the hostel for lunch, yep boiled rice again for me, and the much loved curry for everyone else! We were then free for the rest of the day and while Carol & the girls rested Emma and I went on another mini adventure exploring around Kolkota for the afternoon and enjoying every minute of the 'delights' Kolkota had to offer that we had not yet had the pleasure of seeing (and smelling - yes, it really was worse than we have previously been blessed with inhaling, which we didn't realise was possible) anyway I digress, Emma and I (like when I went out with Carol) felt very grown up in the big city and appreciated the time out to relax (as much as you can in a strange, hot, foreign city). We thought we'd 'treat' ourselves to a taxi back to the hostel, we weren't lost honest!! That was an adventure in itself as we got very confused over how much it cost, you have a price on the meter but the driver then told us to double it and add 2 Rs to it!? We later found out this was in fact correct, very bizarre, though still much cheaper than in England!
On Sunday's we have to fend for ourselves when it comes to the evening meal, last Sunday we were taken out for dinner to a lovely chinese restaurant. This week we decided that we again wanted anything as far removed from curry (or boiled rice) as possible and we treated the girls to dominos pizzas which went down very well, as I'm sure you can imagine!! We then retired well fed and rested for our bible study which was how can we bring heaven to earth as it says in the Lord's prayer "you will be done on earth, as it is in heaven". It's a very appropriate study as we are going to a girls home tomorrow, for under 18's who have been abused in the human trafficking industry, and we have been told that some of these girls are still (understandably) very traumatised by their experiences and that although it was a Christian organisation the girls were not all Christians and being that they were the same age as our girls (or younger) we were very conscious of how we treated them! It gave us all a lot to think about! Emma will tell you how we got on tomorrow!
Rachel x
We went to church this morning, we managed to go to an English speaking service; as requested by the girls. It was a very good service with a variety of people taking part, the preacher spoke very well with a good message, all the songs were in English the we all particularly enjoyed "strength will rise"! And the service was only 2 hours!! An improvement on last week said to the girls!
It was then back to the hostel for lunch, yep boiled rice again for me, and the much loved curry for everyone else! We were then free for the rest of the day and while Carol & the girls rested Emma and I went on another mini adventure exploring around Kolkota for the afternoon and enjoying every minute of the 'delights' Kolkota had to offer that we had not yet had the pleasure of seeing (and smelling - yes, it really was worse than we have previously been blessed with inhaling, which we didn't realise was possible) anyway I digress, Emma and I (like when I went out with Carol) felt very grown up in the big city and appreciated the time out to relax (as much as you can in a strange, hot, foreign city). We thought we'd 'treat' ourselves to a taxi back to the hostel, we weren't lost honest!! That was an adventure in itself as we got very confused over how much it cost, you have a price on the meter but the driver then told us to double it and add 2 Rs to it!? We later found out this was in fact correct, very bizarre, though still much cheaper than in England!
On Sunday's we have to fend for ourselves when it comes to the evening meal, last Sunday we were taken out for dinner to a lovely chinese restaurant. This week we decided that we again wanted anything as far removed from curry (or boiled rice) as possible and we treated the girls to dominos pizzas which went down very well, as I'm sure you can imagine!! We then retired well fed and rested for our bible study which was how can we bring heaven to earth as it says in the Lord's prayer "you will be done on earth, as it is in heaven". It's a very appropriate study as we are going to a girls home tomorrow, for under 18's who have been abused in the human trafficking industry, and we have been told that some of these girls are still (understandably) very traumatised by their experiences and that although it was a Christian organisation the girls were not all Christians and being that they were the same age as our girls (or younger) we were very conscious of how we treated them! It gave us all a lot to think about! Emma will tell you how we got on tomorrow!
Rachel x
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