Day Six: Amy and Manjiri

As Jhaviry would say, today is Day 6 (with a big smile). We started our day with an exciting promise of eggs for breakfast from Jessica. Sadly, we later found out that we can’t eat eggs for breakfast L.

Amy: Luckily I had some anywayyy and it was delicious. Mama Jessica also makes the best hot chocolate.

Manjiri: Luckily, I had some too, but I was sad because Jessica, who made them, didn’t get to have any. But she said, the thank yous filled her up, which was sweet of her!

Amy: WAIT… Before we continue with today’s story I have to mention what happened at around 6am this morning. All week Alyssa told us Manjiri randomly screams some gibberish stuff in the middle of the night, and we never believed her. Coincidently this morning, Manjiri decides to scream some tongue twisting gibberish. The whole entire room woke up startled and I was so scared I screamed at Manjiri. Moral of the story is…Alyssa was right and no one should wake me up while I’m sleeping.

Manjiri: Anyway, ignoring the totally made up story mentioned by Amy, let me continue telling you about the rest of the day. After breakfast, our group was split up and assigned different tasks.

Unfortunately because it was snowing today, we couldn’t visit Joel. Instead, some of us went to clean up the highway, some went to the docha, and some were assigned lunch duties.

Amy: I was in charge of lunch today and definitely was not looking forward to cooking for 40 people. Luckily, Lakpa took the lead and guided us with making curry, tortillas, and brown rice.  I missed out on the highway clean up but I heard that Alyssa’s face almost fell off because it was freezing outside. (It snowed today!!)

Manjiri: All our faces fell off because of the cold. As gratifying as it was to see the highway get cleaned up by our team effort, it was really cold and I was actually miserable because I wasn’t prepared for the cold and snow. However Jacob’s positive attitude, and great conversations we had with the rest of the group the night before, enabled us to get through this and have fun.

 

Lunch was a success! After lunch, all of the schools got together to read our responses to the letters that were sent to Patch.

Amy: It was great listening to everyone’s responses…but halfway through, it was really difficult to stay awake… (We stayed up too late the night before bonding).

Manjiri: Some of the stories were touching and thought provoking, and it was interesting to hear different perspectives on the issues.

We had a group naptime after this activity. We then drove to the farm house for dinner. Priyanka had begun to lose it at this point, we got to see a crazier, funner side of her.

Amy: Dinner was delicious…pizza, mac n’ cheese, and lasagna…I don’t think I mind being a vegetarian anymore!

Afterwards we did some t-shirt tie-dying with the Master Wildman.

Manjiri: I am really excited for my T-shirt. I was going for a design, but at some point I just started improvising, so lets see what the end product turns out to be.

 

As usual we ended the day with reflections. But tonight’s meeting was the most intense; it went past midnight and almost everyone was bawling.

Amy: These past reflection meetings have been great. I think we’ve become much more comfortable sharing a part of ourselves with each other. This is why I love our AB group so much J. 

Manjiri: I second Amy. I shared things with the group I would only with close friends and family, because that is what we have become.

After reflections, we bonded more over fun gossip and ended the day on a good note, looking forward to our last adventure on this trip tomorrow holds.