Monday in Siliguri

At breakfast we met a group from San Diego. They come here every couple of years to work with LTC, our old friends. This day they were headed to a village to do a medical camp. We chatted a little bit and then went down to the lobby to find a familiar old friend…

Oh, and some great old friends (Alem and Harrish), who were coordinating the medical camp for our new friends.

About half an hour later, Bharat and Bandana met us at the hotel lobby. We chatted a little and then headed to our meeting for the day. We met with about 10 or so men and talked about the what, why, who, how of their work here in India. One of them didn’t speak English and another was more comfortable in Hindi so Bandana interpreted for us. We took about half an hour for lunch–chicken and rice and dal and potatoes beans and cukes for me.

After lunch we talked about πρεσβύτερος, ἐπίσκοπος, and ποιμήν – and their relevance to the work they were doing here. We then chatted about the unique challenges they faced and started talked about possible ways to address some of them. We ran out of time around 3pm, said good day and headed back to our Siliguri home away from home.

Harrish came to the hotel after his day with our San Diego friends. We treated him to dinner at the hotel and caught up with each other’s lives. Dinner was tasty.

He is doing well. He works at LTC and how has to position that Arun had before Arun came to the USA with his family. After a great time of fellowship we bid our adieus and headed up to our room. I think I was asleep by 8:30 and Rob was already sawing logs as I drifted off myself.

We’ve found 1 channel on the TV that is is English so far. CNN, can only listen to it so long before it starts to repeat, but it does help me get sleepy!

I was up by 6, though my alarm was set for 7. Rob was already awake. We just finished breakfast and in less than half an hour should get picked up by the Pradhan’s. We are going cubing in an Adivasi village today.

That watermelon juice had the right flavor, but the texture was weird. I won’t be ordering it again.