Alannah's update

Hey people! This is my insight as to how things have been. Yolly shall be sending her update soon too :)

I don't have much time since again tea will be ready soon...

It is soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo good to be back. It hit me for the first time that I was actually going back as the plane landed in Bangalore so that was a bit weird and suddenly thought, 'wait, am i sure i want to come back?' at which point it was too late of course but of course now im tres glad i did!!!

One day into being back and I was straight back into the indian accent, lingo and head wobble. All my indian friends have been laughing at me about it and about the fact i still remember the city very well. I've had some interesting 'compliments' since meeting everyone again. The best included, 'you looking a little chubby now', 'hey, wow, you now have blossomed no?' and my favourite, 'wow, you actually look pretty now!' The genuine look of surprise on this person's face as they said it made my DAY hahahaha.

Yolly is just amazing. Thought she's still very tired from the flight, she's already settling in really well. She loves the food and spice and is already getting on well with everyone here too. She even argued with an auto driver the other day because he was ripping us off, i just stood back amazed!

We're working part time with Oasis in the afternoons for 2 weeks teaching English to young girls in Doddigunta (a local slum community) and are running a girls club on Mondays for them. Then the rest of our time is spent at Grace's preschool since she needs more help considering there are only 2 teachers with 75 young children!

Erm dont know what else really to say now...hmmm...im back at Hope Chapel church on Sunday and am really really looking forward to that since most of my indian friends go there. It is really strange being back without Hattie and Becky, i just can't get my head around it at times! I've shown Yolly loads of the places we used to go to especially around the areas where we're living and working and its so strange not having the other 2 with us!

Prayers
- good health, no illnesses yet and hopefully none to come!
- we make the most of our time here but don't push ourselves to do too much at once since we're tiring out quite easily because of our work and the weather.
- we have oodles of fun!
- we will continue to seek God and listen to Him/learn new things from Him :)

Dinner's ready, must dash! byeeeeeeeeeeee