what a great weekend! one of the girls on our team has a dad that works for marriot so we decided to take a team vacation and go to panji and stay at the marriot for one night. It felt like i was actually on vacation in india for 20 hours. What was crazy to me was that we saw no women! not at the pool, not in the lobby, the only place we saw a woman was while she was waiting for her husband to finish getting a massage at the spa! ha, how different india is. we hit a small bump in the road when we ran out of money midway through the trip and had to use what little personal money one girl brought along. we went to dinner at the hotel saturday night and the lord just told me that he would provide our meal (as i sat there looking at the super expensive prices) and we ate and paid like normal, and i would be lying if i said i wasnt dissapointed that some indian family didnt bust through the walls and offer to pay for our dinner. then this morning we woke up and went to breakfast to find out it was twice the cost of our dinner the night before, but we decided we would just get it, and hoard food and not eat for the rest of the day. or week for that matter haha. so we did, and paid as usual again. Then as we checked out, the man at the front desk said that he would like to pay for our breakfast at the hotel and handed us a pile of cash. literally. haha the lord is so good to us! i couldnt believe it at that point, the lord just wanted me to be patient so he could take care of the most expensive meal i will probably ever eat in India. and now i have enough money to last through the week!
"Therefore i tell you, do not be anxious about anything: what you will eat or what you will wear" Luke 12:22
my computer started working tonight so i could skype my family which was a huge blessing! Im scared to turn it off because i dont think the internet will work for me again if i do... but i kind of have to- so i will just continue to pray for working internet in the future!
this week i am traveling back to the first slum and working primarily with the women. we are handing out hygiene kits tomorrow which is exciting because rahab's can only afford to do it once a month, so im excited to be there for that! we have two girls leaving our team on thursday so please pray for a smooth transition as we go from having a 6 woman team to a 4 woman team.
in closing, here are some facts i have learned about India:
1. rubbing your nose in public is considered a very sexual flirtatious action
2. many women are married to their cousins are uncles before the age of 12
3. a loaf of bread sells for 50 cents
4. a woman sells for $1.50 a visit in a typical indian brothel
5. for a few extra rupees a man can pay to not have to use a condom, which is only even an issue in the few cities where it is illegal to have sex with a prostitute without a condom. anywhere else in india, there is no extra charge.
6. the policemen in india are serviced for free at the brothels, and now we know why they are never shut down even where they are illegal.
7 positive note: a class full of women just graduated from our stiching class and are now certified to get jobs as seamstresses anywhere in india to earn a living!
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