Flights are booked – on the evening of Tues 28th Sept we will say goodbye to Dronfield again, set off on a bus to Heathrow, wait overnight & fly off to Mumbai, where we wait again over the next night to catch the morning 737 to Kathmandu (Ktm).
Nawarej & Lydia Sanjal are recently moved with their new baby from England to Ktm, where they have set up training programmes for Youth leaders, Church ministry and an orphanage with 13 children so far. They want to start a school soon.
We will spend a few days with them before heading off on the “Buddha air” prop driven plane along the Himalayas to Nepalgunj, where the dust and the temperature rise high. This, Nepal’s second (or third?) city, is just 5km across the border from our dear Rupaidiha. Dambar will be waiting to whisk us through the border to our home for the next 9 months in Assembly of God Church School in Uttar Pradesh India.
It will be less exhausting this way; we will have recovered from jet lag, and Nepalgunj is only an hour from Ktm by air. So we will feel more sane than last year when we see all our dear ones...
Welcome! We are Roy & Gill, teachers from Dronfield, Derbyshire, UK, and we have been for the second time in Rupaidiha, Uttar Pradesh, to assist with literacy and the education of children in one of the least literate and developed parts of India. ... fun ... and incredibly rewarding ...
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Namaste!
Sometimes there is just no time to report on the amazing things we see happening here ... it's such an honour to be working alongside & supporting such an incredible outreach here in UP. The real lives and people we touch from all sorts of (very varied and sometimes awful) backgrounds ... the sense of humour, the relaxed way Indians go about organising things ... we have much to learn ... It's great to have a team of 16 Danish, Slovakian and Norwegian Bible students on board at the moment - for 3 weeks they are keeping the School assemblies rapt with stories, drama & music, and taking full part in shepherding & parenting the Mahima Niwas girls, who need full on attention - so strong young arms for swinging are necessary! Its'still quite aweing for the local villagers to see white people, and more so when there are a lot of them and they are extremely tall, as most of the team seem to be! We've been out to the village tonight, taking with us a doctor and a nurse who are accompanying the Danish team, to give first aid and health advice to people who seem to never even have had a bath in their lives, never mind a visit to a proper doctor ... Broke a record recently - went to 7 parties in 10 days. But don't think of it in a Western sense! Apart from the wedding celebration, "any excuse" is more the theme ... so different cultural themes, food & social groups became a bit of a blur ... can't keep up with the youngsters! Last night may well have been the best meal of my life; the staff "pot luck" with dishes from everywhere in India, cooked with love on many home stoves, with great attention to spices ... wow, what an experience.The staff were asked to keep the spices down a bit for the sake of the European visitors, but they didn't do a very good job with that ... YUM!
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