Are you joking me??

This is the story of three girls. We will call them Nat, Cat, and Sarah. Like every other night in India there is a gospel meeting somewhere. The three girls decide to go, Sarah being a bit hesitant because she's tired. After waiting 1 1/2 hrs the ambulance finally arrives to take them to the gospel meeting ...

Ok, enough with the 3rd person talk.

So, we get into the ambulance and Sarah asks Cat "How far to the meeting? Like 2 km?" Cat laughs and replies "No, more like 70km!" Sarah then responds "It's a good thing I peed before we left." We all laughed.

The thing about driving in India is that people make random stops along the way and you have no idea what is going on because you don't speak Telegu. We finally arrive at the gospel meeting, after 3 stops - gas station, Vardhini's parents house, and random place where we picked up random lady - It is about 2 1/2 hrs later and close to 10pm. IT TAKES 2 1/2 HRS TO GET 70KM IN INDIA!!!

The gospel meeting was amazing like always. We belted out 'Here I am to Worship' like at every other meeting and brought greetings from Canada. Cat and Nat brought greetings from every person in Canada so Sarah was left with no-one. When Sarah said "My little brother says hello" the translator, aka the Doctor, laughed and didn't translate. Sarah was choked. Vardhini preached in Telegu and we sat pretty with flowers around our necks - well, Cat and Nat took theirs off because of sneezing and hay-fever.

At the end of the meeting we prayed for many of the people who came forward. Cat got hold of a baby and it almost did it's business on her ... or maybe it did? By the end of praying Sarah had all the flowers around her neck. We were then invited to a family's house for dinner. It was now 12.30am! We weren't hungry. Sarah almost cried because she was NOT hungry!

Nat had an experience and a half ... we all had to pee. Cat and Sarah had a nice squatter, with a hole, and Nat had a small cement room with ... no hole! So here I am, standing in this room going "What am I suppose to do in here?" There is nothing except for a bucket filled with water. Vardhini comes into the small room and shuts the door. Meanwhile, Sarah is outside laughing and wondering what we are doing in that room ... and Cat is peeing in the other room listening to all of this. So, Vardhini pulls her saree up a few inches and squats down "You just squat and go ... like this. And then take the water and pour it over the floor". Sounds simple enough!! Vardhini leaves and closes the door leaving me all alone in this small cement room with nothing to do but pee on the floor. So, I peed and tried not to splash myself. After diluting the floor with water and washing my feet I was met outside by Cat and Sarah waiting to here what happened. I refused to tell them until we got back and after I had a shower!

So, pretty much at this rate Sarah will be practically married or engaged by the time we leave India!! As we were walking back to the ambulance - down this road, through someone's yard, down this tiny pathway (It felt like we were the Secret Service or something), oh and passed the random cow that Sarah thought was going to attack us - this boy/man who was walking with us asked Sarah's name, and then said "You come back to India next year, this month. I will wait for you. Yes? I will wait for you to come back to India!" Sarah was a bit creeped out. Then he hands her a piece of paper and pen, hoping for her phone number or email address but gets "God Bless your heart, Sarah, Canada" and he hands her a paper. In the ambulance Sarah opens the paper to find his name and number!! Awkward!

... Finally at like 1am we were on our way back. We got back shortly before 4am, travelling back with the ambulance lights flashing and travelling at 50 km/h. Our heads hit the pillow shortly before 5am after Nat had a shower and told us her story.

We might go nap ...

Nat, Cat, and Sarah