It's all Greek to me.

Yesterday, we began our language lessons. Our friends who live close to us also take language with us. The guys travel by auto rickshaw for the morning session. We enjoy getting to travel this way though the girls are not quite so comfortable yet. They travel by taxi...a slightly higher cost, but well worth it for everyone's peace of mind.

For two hours, we sat there in our teacher's house (picture attached) trying to understand the few words our teachers would give us in English and laughing a lot when they would speak in Kannada. We're supposed to have numbers 1-100 learned by tomorrow! We're also supposed to have the days of the week, yesterday, the day before yesterday and the day before the day before yesterday. (Yes, they actually have a word for that!) The same amount of words for tomorrow.

Both VJ and I took turns out shopping today, trying out the few things we could remember from yesterday. Thankfully, Tuesdays and Thursdays won't be quite as exhausting as M, W, F. Yesterday, neither one of us had the mental facilities to do much of anything by the end of the day! (And I'm not pregnant, so Valerie's the real champ!

After my language class (and before the shared exhaustion) I was trying out my new language route (a requirement for language learning). I went to several shops trying out my new phrases and counting. I was greeted by much laughter and correction. It's a very humbling process!

I did meet a gentleman outside of one of the stores. I was trying to ask him if any of the other store owners spoke Kannada. He said that he spoke Kannada. He actually invited me to his house where he gave me a plate of different kinds of bread and cake and tried to teach me for about twenty minutes. His name is Shivu and he was a wonderfully nice man! (so nice that I was very skeptical when I first met him)

Each day, we're greeted with new opportunities to tell other people that we are followers of Je$u$. (And we don't even have to encode it!) The L*rd is blessing us with more and more people each day. The girls are meeting new friends. Tonight, we couldn't get the neighbor girls to stop ringing our doorbell for more than 30 secs as we tried to get ourselves ready to go outside....really a wonderful blessing, though bothersome at the time.