loving kolkata

life here has been good. the weather is amazing. perfect. sunny, warm, a little chilly at night. youc an wear jeans and not sweat so being outside is where i want to be right now.
on saturday our friends micheal and bapi took us to bandal church about 2 1/2 hours outside the city. it was from 1568 or something. and then we got to go to this old mosque...it was awesome. you walk in the prayer room and it has all these beautiful glass lamps hanging from the ceiling. it was old and run down but for some reason i really loved it.
and then sunday there was this huge political ralley but i went to the victoria memorial anyways and laid out in the sun and read my bible and it was heavenly.
i think its a combination of the weather and just being out in the city and learning more about it. its like walking around in a museuam sometimes. the houses in our neiborhood along are a hundred or more years old...at least.
and there are still burning ghats and bathing ghats like there was a 1,000 years ago. its just so cool.
and the gatch is great. we recently befriended this lady J who has a young daughter who has a young daughter who is 8 and has some kind of physical and mental handicap. she can walk or talk or sit up...but she can smile. and she is soooo sweet. J's husband died 6 years ago and she was rolling cigarettes to support her daughter and her two sons. any woman would of thrown her child away like everyone would of told her to but she said she couldn't do it. she has only been working the line for 6 months. we have taken her to our friends business and she might start work in Feb!!!! we are also referring her to the indian institue of cerebral palsy to get her daughter admitted in the school.....
sorry this is short but i just talked to my mom on the phone and now i might be late to work!!!

i love that my mom i coming to visit!!! i love the visiting the mosque makes me want to go to morocco. i love that gita calls to remind me to bring things to her. i love that sarah loves fairness and justice.