Thanks for your donations. We have enough now.

Thanks so much to you friends and family who donated to our Afghan family. We have enough to give them a lovely Christmas.

A visit from the Dorffs!

A visit from the Dorff's!

Our dear friends Sarah, Michael and Rachel Dorff came to visit for a week! Michael was mostly away doing a conference up north, but Sarah and Rachel stayed with us bringing wonderful feelings of home and security and two blocks of cheddar cheese! Wahoo! and chocolate and cheezits and goldfish.
We were down to 150 ($2.10) rupees when they came and they left us with more than 3000 rupees that they changed at the airport! Plus all their US dollars that we can use to buy souvenirs in certain places. Now we're living on that, plus a grocery store and Uber cabs that take Visa. (We've waited in scarce ATM lines usually to have the cash run out before we get there or to have the machine reject our debit cards. I hardly buy fruit now. Eejit un-checked governance!!!...)Thank you, Sarah and Michael! How wonderful to get a visit from home!

Fun English "word[s] of the day" from Scott's Learn English app:

"only: He arrived home only to find that his wife was dead."
"square: If you regularly do the exercises, you will be like that woman, of square frame."