So this last week marked our first year as a couple in South Asia! It has been a year of amazing cool opportunities and one marked with difficulties and struggles. We are so thankful to be settled in our place with friends and opportunities for service popping up all around us. Here are a few of my little favorite things about South Asia:
You can buy the "trial" size of ANYTHING! A ketchup packet size of shampoo for $0.05... $0.10 worth of cookies or chips...one battery at a time. You name it, you can find is smaller.
Bottled water has become common, and a liter bottle is $0.30
I have a sewing machine and I bought extra bobbins for $0.10 and a pack of ten machine needles for $0.30! I was so impressed!
Many things can be delivered to your door Cash on Delivery. Never would have thought it was that cool until you realize you don't want to put your credit card number to a not so secure website... or all the American cards don't work right... I can get meat, diapers, toys, books, eggs and bread!
We have learned that our car can fit in much tighter spaces than we ever imagined in America!
Conversations and Chai with friends are highly valued!
More than anyTHING that I like about South Asia, it is the people that I love the most! I see their faces and I feel such love and admiration for them... knowing how hard life can be for many people here, and yet they smile easily and laugh alot. They are also so giving and hospitable...
I love lots of things here, and although there are lots of things I miss about home, I find such peace in knowing that I am supposed to be here. I miss running to Walmart or Target and being able to get 7 different items. Here, I might have to go to three different markets, and 10 stores to find the same 7 things I could find in Target! haha! Time is stretchable here and things go at a different pace than home, but I am learning to appreciate that! I rarely wear a watch, and no one seems to care if I am 15 minutes "late".
One of my highlights of this last year has been of course our PRECIOUS LITTLE MEN... and even though they are still waiting for us in ET, we show their pictures off proudly! I carry my ipad to church just to show off all the little pictures and we have been overwhelmed by the love that our friends have poured out over our babies~ Adoption is not a common practice here... and skin color is a big prejudice here and we were interested to see how our friends would respond to our little African boys. So far, everyone has just said such positive things about them and they ask about them all the time. I can only imagine how life is going to change with those little guys. They have already changed our world! When we go out shopping, I don't look at stuff for me anymore... I hang out in the baby section and imagine how cute they will look in green or brown or orange. And I am stocking up on diapers and bottles!
I am so grateful to have spent this past year here... and I look forward to what G has in store for us over the next however many years He has us live here!
You can buy the "trial" size of ANYTHING! A ketchup packet size of shampoo for $0.05... $0.10 worth of cookies or chips...one battery at a time. You name it, you can find is smaller.
Bottled water has become common, and a liter bottle is $0.30
I have a sewing machine and I bought extra bobbins for $0.10 and a pack of ten machine needles for $0.30! I was so impressed!
Many things can be delivered to your door Cash on Delivery. Never would have thought it was that cool until you realize you don't want to put your credit card number to a not so secure website... or all the American cards don't work right... I can get meat, diapers, toys, books, eggs and bread!
We have learned that our car can fit in much tighter spaces than we ever imagined in America!
Conversations and Chai with friends are highly valued!
More than anyTHING that I like about South Asia, it is the people that I love the most! I see their faces and I feel such love and admiration for them... knowing how hard life can be for many people here, and yet they smile easily and laugh alot. They are also so giving and hospitable...
I love lots of things here, and although there are lots of things I miss about home, I find such peace in knowing that I am supposed to be here. I miss running to Walmart or Target and being able to get 7 different items. Here, I might have to go to three different markets, and 10 stores to find the same 7 things I could find in Target! haha! Time is stretchable here and things go at a different pace than home, but I am learning to appreciate that! I rarely wear a watch, and no one seems to care if I am 15 minutes "late".
One of my highlights of this last year has been of course our PRECIOUS LITTLE MEN... and even though they are still waiting for us in ET, we show their pictures off proudly! I carry my ipad to church just to show off all the little pictures and we have been overwhelmed by the love that our friends have poured out over our babies~ Adoption is not a common practice here... and skin color is a big prejudice here and we were interested to see how our friends would respond to our little African boys. So far, everyone has just said such positive things about them and they ask about them all the time. I can only imagine how life is going to change with those little guys. They have already changed our world! When we go out shopping, I don't look at stuff for me anymore... I hang out in the baby section and imagine how cute they will look in green or brown or orange. And I am stocking up on diapers and bottles!
I am so grateful to have spent this past year here... and I look forward to what G has in store for us over the next however many years He has us live here!
Sarah and Ryan, I am overjoyed at your news, and I can hardly wait to see more pictures of the whole family together. Please keep posting these blogs, I am honored to be a part of your journey through reading these accounts. Best of everything, always, and lots of hugs to you and to your little ones!
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