Stories

Momo Can’t Talk (01.26.12)

I was with Jaxon and Momo. I asked Jaxon what Momo was and he goes, “He’s a cat” Then I asked what the cat’s name was and he goes, “he can’t talk” And I said, “he can’t talk?” and he goes, “Yeah, because he has no toofs!” then he went on to tell me that Hope has no “toofs” either so she can’t talk.

Hungry Cow (01.04.12)

I was in town, waiting for Lissi to finish at a shop when a cow comes right in front of me. It went over to a bike and began to bite at a black plastic bag that was in the basket of the bike. Finally, the bag breaks apart and the cow begins to nibble at the bananas inside. A man noticed this and rushed over, yelling at the cow. Eventually though, he just gave up and dropped the partly-eaten bananas on the ground and let the cow eat them. Then, he just threw the not-touched bananas on the ground as well.

Snake or Worm? (12.14.11)

Sowbuggy called me over and excitedly said, “Aka! I found a snake!” So I come over and saw that she had this long, black earthworm-type animal. I told her that it is not a snake, it is a worm. The thing had no defined head and it was just little. But, she insisted. So we took it down to the bungalow and the New Zealand family saw it. Grant and Sean agreed that it was NOT a snake but all the others said that it was NOT a worm. I even looked up pictures of baby snakes and showed that they look nothing alike! Then David came and saw the animal said that it is a mud worm, which is a type of snake. So, we were all right .

Blackey, The Evil Cow (11.30.11)

Apparently, Yolanda was walking by Blackey, when the cow  bucked her. Yolanda went flying. Lissi came out and saw that Yolanda was lying on the ground while Blackey nudged her with her nose. Lissi screamed and Michael and a field worker came to see if Yolanda was okay. She was completely uninjured. Her clothes just got a bit dirty.

My Sword (11.28.11)

I was peacefully reading a book in bed when all of the sudden, I hear a bang, bang! I look over to find that Lissi was hitting the wall with a book. When she passed by me, I asked, “Lissi, did you just kill a bug with your Bible?” She holds up the book, which was, indeed, her Bible and says, “Yes! It’s my sword!”

Jesus Made Ants (11.28.11)

Jayne had some leftover hot water from making tea and she noticed a line of ants on her windowsill. So, she decided to just pour the water on them to kill them. While she was doing this, Gracie comes in and asks, “Auntie, are you killing those ants?” Jayne says that she is then Gracie goes, “But, Auntie, Jesus made those ants!” Jayne thinks about this for a second then says, “Well, He can have them back!” and continued to pour water on them.

The Ceiling is Falling! (11.18.11)

I was sitting at the computer in the bungalow just minding my own business when all of the sudden, pieces of the ceiling started falling on my head. I got super scared mostly because the ceiling had already fallen all over the floor just behind where I was sitting. I stepped away from the computer and looked up. A squirrel was running along the beam on the ceiling. Darn squirrel…

Short Shorts (11.08.11)

I was shopping with Dani in my sports shorts, which come to right above my knees, and we went into a Fashion Bazaar. As usual, two of the girls working there followed us around. They were laughing a lot the whole time but I didn’t think anything of it. However, later in our shopping spree, Dani told me that the girls were laughing about how short my shorts are. I couldn’t help thinking about how, back in America, these are one of my longer shorts! I responded to Dani by saying that it’s not my fault we had to go shopping on the day I had to do laundry and all my pants were still hanging up to dry!

Missing Sandal (10.27.11)

So, John, the New Zealand family’s grandpa, found out that he was missing one of his sandals. Of course, the entire family (except Daya) immediately blamed this disappearance on Daya’s incredibly annoying dog, Pippy. Jody had Daya go out searching for the sandal. However, someone soon found it. In the boys’ room. With a stuffed animal in it! Apparently, Jackson figured the sandal would be put to better use as a car for his teddy bear. Everyone apologized to Pippy and Daya for the mix-up .

Baby Bat (10.20.11)

So, I was heading to my room when these girls came up to me with a leaf. On the leaf, was a bat. I was like, “Ooooh! Cute baby bat!”. And he was sooo cute. The girls, of course, were afraid of him. Well, I was asking them what they were going to do with him when they just handed the leaf to me and walked away. So, I was just standing there, holding a baby bat. I wandered to where the girls were playing and set him down on the concrete. Then, all of the sudden, another bat came “walking” along. (He was using his cute little wings to scamber across the pavement, it was so cute!). But then, disaster struck! The girls started poking his fragile little wings with a stick. Then they put it his little mouth and he started squealing in pain. I got them to put him on the leaf with his bat friend and brought them both far away to safety. I feel like a superhero .

First Little Bat

Wings!

Hanging Bat

Safety!

Uncle David (10.10.11)

First off, I need to explain the use of uncle and auntie here. Indians call the older men uncles and the older women aunties out of respect. Well, I was helping one girl in the computer lab with setting up a Yahoo! Mail account. When she got to the security questions, she chose the question, “Who is your favorite uncle?” so, after whispering in my ear, “don’t tell anyone!”, she typed in, “David”, as in the father of the New Zealand children.

The Gender of Babies (10.4.11)

Daya told me that she really wants her mom to have a baby girl. I was surprised at the fact that they still didn’t know the gender of Jody’s baby and asked why they didn’t know. She told me that it was illegal to know the gender of the baby before it’s born. As you may have guessed, boys are desired over girls, so, back when the mother was allowed to know the gender of her baby, the mother would abort the baby if she found out that the baby was girl. This made the amount of girls drop substantially, so the government made it illegal to know the gender.

Holy Cow! (10.4.11)

Three of the New Zealand girls invited me to go to breakfast with them and as we were walking around, they told me this story: while they were in Bangalore, a cow decided to lay down right in front of the door to their house. So, they couldn’t get out. They had plenty of entertainment though. Many Indians came and bowed down before the cow saying that the family was blessed. Then the cow pooped and the people bowed down before the poop too.

Ron’s Snake Story (10.1.11)

Ron told me this funny story about a snake at KGH. A student found a snake in the bushes and soon two huge groups of sixty or seventy students gathered around. Ron saw this going on and got a stick and hit the snake with it. The snake, however, was still alive, but before Ron could hit it again, the dog decided to help out a bit. The children were still all around aweing and ooing when the dog came up to the snake. Rather than just killing it though, the dog decided to have some fun. He flicked the snake right in the middle of one of the groups of students. They screamed and scattered. The dog wasn’t done though. He got to the snake and flicked it right in the middle of the other group of students. Those kids also screamed and scattered. Ron said it was simply hilarious