Wednesday, March 25, 2009

The next three pictures were all taken at our market. The first one is of a fast food restaurant, the second is of men peeling potatoes, and the third is a stitching shop (note the old time treddle sewing machines). Usually it's always men doing the work. Once in a while you will see women working if the business belongs to her husband or father. Just across the road from these pictures is where we saw the mother rat popping her head up out of a sewer drain, and just a little ways off were her babies popping their heads up. A beggar looking woman came walking by just as we were watching the rats. She laughed and put her baby down to play with them.Earlier, we saw a man feeding about twenty rats milk out of a big flat bowl. They revere all animals here.
I had to think really fast the other day at the Women's Poly-Technic. I was teaching my music class and I always have some fun finger plays or primary songs to break the monotony. Anyway, I was teaching them "This Little Piggy". When I got to , "this little piggy had roast beef," I quickly changed it to, "this little piggy had toast and tea". Phew, that was close.
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  1. Roxi and Ephraim's FamilyMarch 27, 2009 at 9:35 PM

    That was really quick thinking Mom! Do you remember me telling you about the private British school in England that had a whole bunch of Jewish kids who attended the school. The school wanted to put on the play..."The Three Little Pigs," but the teachers were so worried that any talk about pigs would be offensive to the Jewish parents and kids. So they decided to change the title to "The Three Little Dogs." The teachers found out later this was even more offensive than using pigs for the play, because their culture reveres a dog as the lowest of all animal forms and were appalled to think that their child would play the part of a dog! It's a blessing to have such inspiration Mom!

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