-i wore my "special" sky blue birthday top to sari bari yesterday...complete with lots of bling and electric blueness. its a boost to the self esteem to wear things the ladies like. how many times did i hear "wow, you look soooo beautiful today. oh puja's looking heavy (bengali slang for hot)"
-i'm afraid i'll be getting a comb from one of our staff for my birthday, because yesterday again she asked me why i didn't comb my hair and i said, i don't even own a comb, not in my house in kolkata, not in my house in america. no where. she looked a mix between exasperated and disgusted. she was speechless. and i forced her to swear not to tell the ladies, i'd never live that down.
-one of our new trainees squeezed 6 of the smallest bangles ever onto my wrists yesterday with her indian death grip. these suckers are not coming off, ever. but i love that they bought me bangles and didn't even give me the choice of whether i would wear them or not. they're black with gold glitter. which i now spread far and wide with everything i touch.
-in a taxi yesterday, i passed a blue van parked beside some sort of stage/funtion that was going on in the central city. i looked once and saw the back door was open and the large words FISH, oh, of course the traveling fish van. selling mouth watering fried fish to one and all. then i looked again and saw painted on the front Government of West Bengal. hmm, the government has a traveling fish van. yes of course they do. random.
-last friday i was washing the sari bari floors before work and one of our ladies, Imagination, walked in and said in utmost sincerity, "oh puja, when you move to your inlaws house you are going to do such a beautiful job".(refering to all the chores the wife "gets" to do when she moves into the inlaws place) lets not even go into all the responses i could have to that. but i did smile, and thought to myself, now thats the best comment i've gotten all week...
-and last but not least i have to share a picture that one of our friends jenny took at a wedding we attended two weeks back...as she wrote, "leave it to the bengali folks, who love their fish, to dress one up for the wedding"...now thats funny.
8 comments:
Beth, thanks for sharing all these stories... and that amazing fish! I've been thinking a lot about Kolkata lately and it was a pleasure to read your stories.
Never thought a fish could look so good in a dress. That is funny. I wish I could see that floor you scrub on. :) Glad to see you are doing well. I love all your pictures that you post and all the great stories you tell. My prayers are with you and all the beautiful girls and young women whose lives are being changed. Love in Christ Always,
Amanda Stout
haha...that fish...
i do love your stories. :)
and i do miss your face. seriously bro.
you're CRACKING me up beth!!!!
love it and you.
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