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wednesday.
dosa queen our first real rain in months and months In Amie’s world, pigs and sheep and ponies and dinosaurs are all best of friends Why there are so many pictures of Amie on the blog I said, “Okay, fine. You don’t have to smile. What face do you want to make?”
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how we’re staying cool these days.
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swimming pool!
Just about every day I think, “What did we ever do without Priya???” She is one of the hardest workers I’ve ever met, constantly thinking up news ways to serve our family, help me with my diet, and keep our home in tip-top shape. Her latest plan: to garden our terrace. I worried that I’d feel awkward having another person in our house all day, but that hasn’t happened at all. Since Priya speaks English, I feel like we’re becoming friends, but at the same time, she is so good about giving us space to just be a family when we’re at home together. I love that she’s used to…
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nine days in.
For all my talk of city-living, it turns out I’m still a girl from the suburbs. I arrived, for better or for worse, in my new neighborhood last Wednesday evening in a state of shock. Twenty-five minutes away, and it is a different world here, truly. It turns out that the thread of my confidence in living in South Asia was very tenuous indeed. Uproot me from my familiar little neighborhood, from Skyline apartments, and I am lost. I spent the first couple of days holed up in our apartment, kids bouncing off the walls, paralyzed by intimidation. It is loud here. It is crowded. Yes, all of South Asia…
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urban camping.
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moving day.
The movers showed up at 7:45 a.m. and were fast, careful and professional. I dropped Judah off for the last day at his preschool, then Amie went to our friends’ so I could go check on the packing-up process . . . . . . and take David a cup of coffee. Meanwhile, Ams, Joshua and Caleb had craft time. Alison said, “Can you tell which painting was done by the girl?” David headed to the new flat mid-morning to do some cleaning, and I hung around to oversee the packing up. Alison took the kiddos down to the playground. By 11:30 the place was empty and the movers on…
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we’re moving!, part three.
How far is it from where you live now and from your friends?” Depending on traffic, our new home is a twenty to thirty minute drive (shorter by auto rickshaw) from where we live now. And our friends, John, Alison, Joshua and Caleb, just signed a lease on an apartment downtown too. They will be living less than a mile away from us, in a different neighborhood. John and Alison are nurses, and have joined our team to do community health training in villages, but are also excited about being apart of a city church plant as a family and living in the community where we will worship. One fun…
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we’re moving!, part two.
“Where are you moving?” We are moving to an apartment building in center city, just off the main commercial and business district. It’s a perfect location because it’s within walking distance of really anything we could want—supermarkets, schools, shopping, malls, and public parks—but still in a residential neighborhood with many other apartments. Here is a view of our street, which dead-ends into one of the main roads in town: “Does your new apartment building have a playground?” Sadly it doesn’t. Our current complex is closer to the outskirts of the city, so there is a lot more space in that area for playgrounds and pools. City apartments are built closer…
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we’re moving!, part one.
By now many of you know that we are moving next week. We signed our lease and got the keys on Monday. Here’s our new apartment building: I have decided to tell you about our move by answering some frequently asked questions, which I’ll spread out over this week while we’re cleaning and organizing and meeting with painters and movers. “Why are you moving?” This may seem sudden, but we’ve been talking about moving for months now. We just weren’t sure where. We weren’t even sure what city. We’re learning that’s what happens when you join a brand-new team. It takes a long time to figure out exactly what the…