Quick story! Yesterday morning I sat on the computer waiting desperately for Bruce Christenson to skype me for my mom’s surprise 50th birthday party so that I could say hello to her and everyone there. It was morning for me, and Saturday evening for them. The power goes out during the day here, but there’s never any telling what time it will go off in the morning. Unfortunately the power went out only a few minutes before my mom arrived and I couldn’t talk to them, so I was a little bummed! But I moved on.
We usually eat dinner at our little adopted family’s house, Vara and Prim and baby Nancy, here on campus every night, but today we were invited to our friends Raju and Vani’s house (the family with the baby boy named by Kati W. and Hillary M) for dinner on their wedding anniversary day. But Vara and Prim told us to come over after we were done because they had a surprise! After we were stuffed full of chapatti and rice and all the other 10 courses of food they feed us, we rolled ourselves into an auto rickshaw and arrived back at school safely. We sat and watched as Prim tried to wake baby Nancy up from her complete dead sleep, she made the cutest faces as her limbs flopped around like noodles, and then Vara comes in and says, “so we have this cake to eat! It’s the birthday of the friend of my friend…. So we need you to eat it.” He then opens this box and shows us a cake that says ‘HAPPY BIRTHDAY BRKS MOTHER!’
I was so surprised and thrilled! We celebrated my mom's birthday because I am family, and so she is family too of course! I fed each person a bite of cake from my hand in tradition (for my mama) and then everyone else fed each other, this part reminds me of a wedding hehe. It was fun. They even had one of the awesome exploding candles that are famous for birthdays here. These candles are great because they sing happy birthday until the battery runs out (unless you break them). ;) How can a family with a 2 year old little girl, who have so little, be so caring and generous? I am learning so much from these people, and becoming too attached! They are truly amazing.  |
| Nancy feeding her Nana! |
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| Happy Birthday mom from your Indian family! |
Ah, that's the best Brooke! Aren't they great? Doesn't it make you want to come back to the states and do things like that for your friends' parents who you've never met? Would be silly, but wouldn't it make everyone feel so cared about and loved? I feel like since I've come back from India, it's been so hard for me to feel so cared about and loved, no one loves like my Indian family : ) Keep enjoying it Brooke!
ReplyDeleteHappy Birthday Mrs. Bauer!!!!
Oh my goodness! That's the cutest, most thoughtful thing ever! Seriously, they celebrated YOUR MOM'S birthday with you?! I love this. :)
ReplyDeleteThat is awesome. Doesn't take money to be caring and loving. The surprise party for your Mom was so much fun and she was really surprised.
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ReplyDeleteThank you so much to my India friends who take such good care of my Brooke! Your generosity is very inspiring!
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