Tuesday, March 3, 2009

This week we are back in Guwahati, and going daily to the school in Kalipani. Bob is teaching a class to the Bible school students, on the prison epistles, and in the afternoon, I am teaching the girls in the Bible class, and a couple of the teachers from the elementary school, a quilting class.
Since we do not have power, we are doing all the sewing by hand, but these girls have at least done some hand sewing before, so we are getting along just fine. I am precutting the pieces in the evening, so that they can do stitching and putting together, and whatever cutting needs to be done to make the blocks as they need to be. Anyway, everyone is enjoying themselves, and we have been managing a block an afternoon. We will only do three blocks, so Thursday we will turn these into pillow covers, since three is not enough to make a quilt.

Anyway, again the pictures are not posting very well, so I will add pictures later.

This morning, Ellen and I took some time and went shopping. Enjoyed it a lot. We took a motor rickshaw to the Pan Bazaar, which is one of the large shopping areas in Guwahati. One of the things on Ellen's list was to return a school book of Autumn's which had a damaged section. We had to go to the book sellers area for that. Picture two or three blocks where every store is a book or book and stationery store. Most of the stores are also not wider that about 3 m. You ask for what you need, you don't get to browse. Anyway, it ended up that she had to buy a new copy of the book, which was annoying, but it was also about 80 rupees, which is just around $2.00 Canadian. So at least not a major tragedy.

2 comments:

  1. enjoy your postings. Are you able to tell the story that goes along with each block?
    Mom

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  2. We are not doing them in the right order, but we are doing the stories of Moses as the Bible study with the blocks. The blocks we are doing are Hard times, Shoo fly and Wandering star, so that works.

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