Saturday 13. my girl, hairdryers and groovy sax player

Met again with my lovely girl, all dressed up and looking beautiful.  It is so good  to give her a cuddle.  I caught Gloria sitting on the floor near to the power point to blow dry her hair, taking advantage of the electricity while it is on.  Graig, one of our trainers, in church this morning, playing his sax with the boys in the band.  Yesterday, we spent doing a little shopping and seeing a little of the tourist centre and had dinner and then home in the pouring rain with grumpy taxi drivers.  It absolutely poured on the way home,  the street overflowing the gutters.  I rained hard all night.  It has been lovely today and a little cooler.  Training again tomorrow and more interviews for me all afternoon.    Robyn

Thursday11- Master Class

Today was the final day for the self defence class for this group.  So is guess you could say  it was graduation.   I just had to take a photo of Josh and our tiny Manissa.  She is such a cutie.    So just a few shots of the girls in action.  Next week, the cooking class and the self defence class swap over.  We had a new stove installed today which is a bit more modern than the last one (modern for Nepal).  Gloria and Danielle had a great week.  Danielle is giving Gloria some instruction as we speak, how to post a photo on the phone and install an ap.  It is good to have some  techno. young people for the more senior members of us who have no clue.  The dolls bodies and heads are made and next week we concentrate on drawing faces and
putting on hair and making clothes.  I don't know if we can accomplish this in 5 two hour lessons as they are not too good at the drawing part.   Tomorrow in team day off, so we will be going into Thamel for the afternoon to see the tourist area, and then have dinner in town.  Two new team members arrive tomorrow lunch time, only overnighting, and then out to Surkhet , 1 hour plane ride, and 2 1/2 hour drive to the region where the girls come from.  Graig is training the pastors from the surrounding district, about 60, I think, and Lyn is doing training of teachers in our school there.

Sorry for the set up with the photos but don't know how to put them on the page properly.  Never mind.  I'm sure you get the picture
Robyn

Wednesday, 10th. Landslide in Nepal

Here are some photos of the landslide.  You can see how the landslide has blocked the river, and the water will be building up behind it.  I wouldn't want to be on the downside of the river.  The blocks of houses have been washed into a pile like matchboxes.  You can see the concrete foundations have just been pulled up with the houses.  Also the rescue of a little boy, one of the lucky ones.  Cholera is also a big worry.  Clean water too is a problem and lots of displaced people.

As far as the training today, pretty much as the day before.  No explosions or anything.  It is still the wet season, so we get storms every afternoon or evening.  It is a blessing, as it keeps the dust down and everything is cleaner.  I'm sure it keeps the germs at bay.  There seems to be less sickness, so far.  Please pray for those people at Dologhat and that a way will be found to release the water in a slow way so there is not another disaster.

Robyn

Tuesday 9th, cooking can be dangerous

 

Gloria had quite an experience today.  She had just put a batch of patty cakes in the oven and there was a loud explosion.  The glass on the inside of the oven just exploded and shattered into a million pieces  like a windscreen.  The cakes were covered in glass, so we had to throw them all out.  So now we are up for a new oven.

 

These two girls have not done the doll making before, so they were a long way behind the others.  I was so impressed with Srijana, on the right, because she stopped what she was doing and spent her time helping her friend, putting aside her own interests to help another.  I thought what a servant attitude for a young girl .  She did it so willingly.  

Robyn 

Monday 8th.The sisters are doing it for themselves

Gloria and Danielle making pikelets, toll house cookies,  and mars bar slice, which were devoured very quickly afterwards by the girls, especially those in the self-defence class, who had worked up quite an appetite.









Watch out!  These girls are deadly.  They are so enjoying the self-defence class.  It is giving them such confidence.  Considering their backgrounds, this really changes how they view themselves.  Josh and Emma have joined the class to help with the practice of being attacked and how to defend themselves.  Josh is 6 ft. tall and he has to play the badguy and surprisingly the tiniest one in the hot pink on the left is just like a little tiger.  It is so great to see them so happy.

Josh and Emma were helping out in the school in the morning and then the other class in the afternoon.

Robyn

Sunday 7th dolls, bickies, and motor bike ride.

Another sweltering day, but it didn't dampen the enthusiasm of our little self defence class.  As I was otherwise occupied with my own classes  and duties, I didn't get a picture.  But tomorrow, I have some time to pop into the class.  Gloria is with her small class in the kitchen.  There will be more girls joining soon.  One of my beautiful girls on the sewing machine making a start on her doll.  This afternoon, I had to go to one of our hostels to update photos and details of our girls there.  I was picked up by one of the house fathers on his motorbike.  I was quite apprehensive, but I found it quite exhilarating, dodging through the traffic, between busses, cars, bikes and other manner of traffic on the main road.  I can't wait to do it again.  Grahame as a full day teaching at the Bible college tomorrow.

Robyn    

6th, prayer point

A dangerous situation has been caused by the landslide up river from Dologhat, where we were today.  The slide fell into the river and has caused  a large dam to form.  Because there has been a lot of rain, it is becoming quite serious.  The police are there trying to work out how to release the water slowly but are worried about the whole wall breaking and causing a massive flow of water at once.  The little church and village could be at risk. Please pray for them.

Robyn