Khammam is noisy and busy, but the polio rehabilitation hostel is a little oasis of calm, the young people make lots of noise & laughter. The girls have been climbing the trees to collect coconuts and guavas. They delight in "thwacking" their washing soon after 5.00am each morning.
Some are only just returning from their Christmas holiday as they took in Pongal - harvest festival - too, very colourful with kite flying & rangoli patterns on the streets. We are having power cuts for two hours twice a day now. Paul plays badminton until breakfast, but still gets to shower & shave in the gloom. I find it extremely difficult getting the sari on in the dark whilst being attacked by mosquitoes.
We led a two hour Sunday school this week, lots of action songs & we did a drama involving the 100+ there. At the end we were presented with a gift of six glass dishes; a bit of a problem really as we had five large cooking bowls for Christmas together with small colourful ornaments. We have left half our luggage in Dornakal as we return there by train for meetings about the hopefully forthcoming computer centre Paul's to install there. I get to "preach" at the Women's Fellowship two hour fast & prayer meeting on Friday. I take part in the girl's prayer at 7.00am and we join with staff prayer at 9.00am so are well catered for. We are eating more simply at the hostel, chapattis with curried potatoes being a feature (I will be bigger on my return!) but feast when asked out- three deserts last night, cake followed by papaya, then fruit salad, we politely refused the bananas.
We are visiting the villages again with the physiotherapist, the people are very poor but so welcoming, the journey always exciting as we travel by auto as they take the buffalo herds out to feed, I always think something will get impaled on their horns. I have been spending time with the elderly in the residential home in the hospital grounds. There is a team of twelve surgeons from the US and the UK here for two weeks operating 8.00am-8.00pm each day.
Paul has brought a mosquito bat (to go with the catapult to repel monkeys) it's like a tennis racket, recharchable, frazzles any mossies it comes into contact with; keeps Paul very
active!
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