Celebrity

Today was our first time to go to the Kai village, this was also their first time to see a white person. The Kai people were very welcoming and treated us like celebrities. It was very overwhelming. Anywhere we went they would immediately grab chairs and benches for us to sit down. We would sit and talk with tem about their village life and we recorded everything would could get from them. It was overwhelming at times because it felt like the whole village was surrounding you and anytime you look up at least 10 people are staring at you or more. They wanted to show us their homes so we followed various people and the entire town followed suite. The first house we visited had three rooms on it. there was the cooking room and then two rooms that had beds in them. They showed us their beds that were made of bamboo and I eventually was forced to sit on one by a villager and it was kinds hard but seemed comfortable. There was not a lot in their houses and they were made from bamboo and mud. All of the houses seemed to be built very well and they all looked about the same. We then tried to leave as they kept insisting that we stay and learn more. So we had fresh coconut water that tasted like sour grapes that I forced down. We have been focusing on Luke 10 when we go the villages and when we do church planting here so we drank it thankfully. We then left to go eat lunch, which was one of the nastiest places we have ever eaten at. It was a stand that was by the road and eating with us were flies, roaches and spiders. The food was not too bad but I was hot, sweaty and not sure if the food I was eating was beneficial to my health. But I ate most of it anyways. Sitting there I was thinking to myself “I WANT PIZZA HUT TONIGHT”. We then went to the house of one of our translators and they served us “lemonade” and chai. The lemonade tasted like lemon juice, water and salt. Another thing I forgot to mention was we had a driver that was hired to take us to the villages that are about 2 hours away from Guwahati. Our driver I was very nice but his driving it chaotic. He would drive as fast as he could then when something would get in the way (like a stupid cow or goat sometimes the occasional duck) we would stop on a dine. It was nauseating and nerve-racking. I clenched my teeth the entire way hone. We finally made it back and we had to move from Steve and Jans house to CBCNEI and I asked the Rudobocks if Pizza Hut sounded good for dinner and they said it was the best idea I have ever had. India Pizza Hut it not exactly the same but between five of us we finished two large family size pizzas. It was glorious!