Day 11- Heather

Managed to have a bit of a sleep in this morning before a busy and interesting day.  Our day started with morning tea with Shikuntala  and Nikkil (Avinash's mother and brother)- then it was a quick walk to Christian hospital where we joined the hospital staff for their Christmas staff lunch. It was a lovely opportunity for me to catch up with some of the staff and their families that I knew from my previous visits. One young man came up to me and said that he remembered me teaching his class a Christmas song for the St Thomas school Christmas programme - he said he was in year 3 at the time.....!!

We were then invited as guests of honour to the Sunday school Christmas play - the play was in Hindi but we had no problem following the story line!!  Kids are the same the world over with the littlest waving to their parents, the shepherds nearly had a fight on stage because one of them got their lines wrong and one kid was so nervous he interrupted the narrator because he was so keen to say his lines and get off the stage.  It was brilliant....afterwards Megan and Joanna were in hot demand for photos , David, Andrew and I even made it into a few. 

In the evening we went out to dinner with Kamala and David Singh, Shenu and Vishal (their daughter and son-in-law) to a local restaurant. After which they took us to a local sweet vendor where we had the yummiest galab jamans. The night concluded with tea at Vishals's parents place. We have all eaten so much in the last 3 days we think we might pop...The good news is (I'm sure you are all wondering about this!!)  that so far our stomachs are holding up fine.