Author: jeremib

Our time in the North ended this morning. (This picture was a perfect last shot of the sort of thing you find every moment on an Indian rode? I just love it.) We had a bit of a sad goodbye to our friends. We have truly come to love these two people. We are one …

Our time in the North has been really good and really difficult all at the same time. I wish I could let you walk around in our heads because I really just can’t communicate all the things that we have seen, heard, felt and spoken since we arrived. Jeremi and I have often talked about …

By request of our sweet friend Mittu, I will post a few pictures of our henna experience with Sonika and Jaskamal’s sisters, Manpreet and Jaspreet. Our girls were really looking forward to having henna done while we were in India, so our friends took us a few nights ago. For any of you that aren’t …

When Sonika and Jaskamal found out that Ianna will have a birthday here, but not while in Ludhiana, they wanted to make sure they got the opportunity to celebrate it.  So last night we ate Dominos and had cake for her birthday.  Tradition here is for everyone to feed the birthday person.  So everyone at …

This morning we visited the other American’s house that spotted us in while walking the other day.  We stopped by for a short visit, but ended up having lunch and spending a couple hours there, typical of an Indian drop-in. He is married to an Indian and they have two boys, he’s been here for …

On our way to meet a friend this morning we took the kids on their first auto-rickshaw ride. They were excited! Our friend found out we were in India and asked if we could see each other. This man, Gurjeet, used to work with Jeremi. We met him at the mall this morning for coffee. …

We were invited to dine “with” Sonika’s family for dinner yesterday evening. We looked forward to that. Like Jaskamal’s family, we had made a really good connection with them on our first trip to Ludhiana. As we were walking through our apartment complex to meet them for the ride to her house a man stopped …

On Tuesday we had arranged to go to visit one of Jaskamal’s employees house. He lives in the village of Hassanpur. I love villages in other countries, I find them so fascinating! The village has about 1,500 people living in it and it is like a labyrinth of connected houses and walls around them, it …

Jeremi received a message from Jaskamal the other day. It read: “You take packet milk?” Well we were certainly unsure what packet milk was so we asked him. He said, “Packet milk comes in packets or you can order straight from the cow.” Uh…packet milk please!! So Jaskamal brings us unchilled milk in little bags …

Today we drove about 2.5 hours to the city of Chandigarh, which is the capital of the state of Punjab, where Ludhiana is located.  This city is known as a “clean city” and you can definitely notice the stark difference.  It’s a lot more green, the traffic laws are actually mostly obeyed, and the trash is …