Sunday, July 3, 2011

First Impressions

We have been in country for about 36 hours and here are some of our observations:
-It doesn't smell as bad as we thought it would
-Driving on the opposite side of the road is very hard to get used to and we aren't even driving yet
-Crossing the road when traffic is going different directions that what you are used to is like being in the game "Frogger"
-There is lots of honking and Karley jumps every time
-We have ridden in a car, the metro, and a rickshaw (three wheeled bike with a big seat on back), an auto (a rickshaw with a moped engine)
-Dakota was excited to go downstairs and buy vegetable from the man selling them on a cart in the middle of the street and he doesn't even like most of them (veggies that is)
-In the stores we been in, there are at least 5 men willing to help you
-The above translates into one man following you around the small grocery store asking how he can help
-There are less cows in this city than originally advertised
-Dominoes delivers and it was really good
-We have heard that you can get just about anything delivered to your house
-A city of 20 million people divided into many neighborhoods makes for a complicated auto rickshaw ride home (especially when you don't know the language)
-Poverty is a very difficult thing to deal with on a daily basis
-Hearing our son say that he is ready to learn the language
-Seeing another son give the guard at our building a high five every time we come and go
-God is with us
-He hears us when we pray
-We are expecting Him to do great things in and through our family
-He is at work all over the world

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