Thursday, September 14, 2006

Bamboo Dance



There is a family from Tripura (part of NE India) living underneath us and occassionally we'll hear loud thumping noises outside. They have this cultural dance called the Bamboo dance where boys will hold and hit together these long pieces of bamboo as the girls do difference dance steps throughout the moving bamboo. So today for the past couple of hours they have been dancing outside and they are laughing like crazy. I love to watch them from our terrace.

Tomorrow we are supposed to go on a picnic with the SOFM to Cherrapunjee. Cherrapunjee is three hours away and supposedly the wettest place in the earth, receiving a large amount of rainfall . We are just finishing monsoon season and so supposedly there are 7 waterfalls there these days.

These days and weeks continue to go by so quickly. My health is doing a bit better, and my antibiotics are nearly finished. I'm supposed to see the doctor in the next couple of days for a check-up. I've still been feeling really weak and the medicine has bad side effects like headaches and nausea, but hopefully it's killing all of the parasites. Houser has been so kind in taking care of me the past few days. He is a gift from God to me.