Strange Sights

The week  of 10/1 started with Kelvin coming for housekeeping training.  I didn't make him clean the bathrooms. I thought that was noble..;)  We got alot accomplished!  In the evening we had some friends over for chocolate and popcorn. Yum!  Later in the week I spent the day with a sister who doesn't speak English but she taught me the chorus for Listen, Obey and Be Blessed in Myanmar.  I'm working on learning the rest of it, so far I'm halfway through the first verse. Hmm.  Maybe if I can at least get the first verse before we go that will be good.  Friday Kylie came for her training.  No bathrooms that day either.  Super noble. Saturday was a day that some friends came in and lent their support.  I got to spend the day with Matt!  Later I went up on the roof and witnessed first hand the incessant cutting up of that dumb tree. Every day.  All day. Saw, saw, saw.

They do it old style.  You have to admire their work ethic!!!

Saturday evening we went out to eat with Brian and Allison.  We went to a place we heard had good beer.  We ordered the small.

That is not an optical illusion.  Matt and I shared the small.  Ahem.  It was good!  They have large too.  That is like a family sized glass.  You need lots of pals for that one!

The next day we walked to Oishi Sushi.  On the way we saw some of the older buildings.

So pretty!

Then we saw something truly awesome:

Can you read the sign? Public Mobile Urination Room.  SO much more exotic than a portapotty I have to say.

On that note, we close this post.

We're Talking and Walking! Are You Talking and Walking?;)

Recognize that (paraphrased) quote?

The week of 9/24 I had my first talk here.  Lydia was my householder, and thanks to her it went without a hitch.

 

Mid-Gesture

Thursday Brother and Sister Raj left for New York where they will be until January.  We miss them so much, but know that they are having a wonderful time! They have even met our friends at Patterson:)  We miss you guys so much too!

Saturday morning we had a special talk given by a missionary serving at Bethel.  Afterwards we went to a teashop.  Where we tried the sweet tea and had a very suspicious desert.  I honestly couldn't decide if I liked it or not.

Mel was perplexed too!

 It was a custard eggy type pudding.  Very different.  Matt liked it though! Then we took our new friends Kelvin and Kylie around.  We had to show them the Market, very important dontchaknow!

The Market

The view of the street across from the market.  Asia in all it's amazingly crazy glory!

A sign for all you electricians out there!

Although we wore them out with shopping, we got some good bargains and one annoying guy ripped me off by 50 cents.  Grr.  You may be thinking, um, 50 cents?  Girl, get a grip!! All I can say about that is it IS a big deal and after you are here for awhile you realize that.  So there.  :)  Well, the heat pretty much wore us out and it was time for some lunch!

We went to a restaurant near the market.  Air conditioned.  Oh yeah.

Upstairs there is a shop!  But what I wanted to take home was not for sale.  One of Gypsy's cousins.

Made me miss Gypsy and her wonderful parents:)

In the evening we made dinner and visited some more with Kelvin and Kylie.

Sumday we went out and about in the morning.  We walked to tennis courts.  Then we walked to Junction Square.  We like to window shop, and found a shop for our golfer friends:

Come visit guys, we'll take you shopping!

There was a talent show going on in the mall.  It was actually funny, but you have to give them credit for their willingness to put themselves out there!

 

 We walked towards Hledan to pick up something before we headed to meeting.   We got a good picture of bamboo scaffolding. Very strong!

After walking all morning we were hot.  Then we had a hot taxi ride to meeting.  And the hall wasn't cool because of AC issues.  So we were overheated all meeting. It was actually cooler outside. Most days are just plain hot here. However, we did enjoy the special talk from our visiting Bethel Speaker.  The second visit I have had like that in my life.  Its such a privilege to hear such good speakers drawing on their considerable experience to encourage us!

Just Fine

Many of you have probably heard about the 6.8 earthquake here in Myanmar this weekend.  We just wanted to assure everyone that the quake did not affect the area we live in and so we are just fine.  However, we very much appreciated the emails and messages of our friends and family that were concerned we might have been affected.   Myanmar is apparently prone to earthquakes and they are fairly common.   We have not heard of any brothers or sisters being hurt so we are glad of that as well.

Thank you so much for keeping in touch! We miss you all!