A New Beginning!
Overshadowing all other thoughts and concerns this week — we are really going to Nepal!
We fly on Wednesday, May 3rd, arriving in Kathmandu around 8:30 in the evening. The next day, after adjusting to the 15 minute (!) time change, we’ll be rarin’ to go on our new assignment!
But more on that next week when we’re there in the flesh instead of just in spirit!
This week we’ve seen and done a few things that we did not want to miss.
On Thursday, we played badminton in the morning with a real net, in the smaller walking park just a half mile away.
On Friday we went to Vizag’s “Central Park” — it didn’t open for real until 9:00am, so we just walked around the jogging track on the outside a couple of times. Maybe we’ll get to see the inside, maybe not.
Yesterday we went to Bheemili, a scenic beach about 25 km from here that attracts many tourists. Of course there were groups, large and small, who noticed us and wanted to take pictures with us.
Yesterday we were also privileged to attend the baptism of a young sister in the first branch. She’s the younger sister of the wife of our doctor friend who we met on our first day in Vizag. It was Friday that we were blessed to visit those two in their home and see their new baby!
From this morning’s walk at Sivaji park:
Random sights that caught my attention:
Per the sign, shopping at the CMR Mall (biggest in the city) is The joy of life — for the ardently materialistic!
(SIN is a brand name, derived from their slogan “sinfully stylish clothes for men”.)
There’s some apropos gospel-related response to this floating around in my head waiting to be captured and written, but the hour is late, and I’m going to bed instead!
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