Fabric Galore

Today we worked with the new ladies, on new products that we're not even quite sure how to make.  That makes it a little bit difficult.  It was impressive, some of them have been sewing for 12 years! Also more of these ladies seem to still be married.  I'm not sure if I mentioned this the other day, but one lady said she had four children and two had died, which apparently isn't so uncommon of people to mention the dead.  Chanel said that one of the girls who she was talking to said that she had three siblings but one died.  It's kind of nice that they still mention the dead and don't treat it as a taboo, though on the other hand it's pretty sad how common it is to have lost children.

Anyway while it was slightly awkward it's good to spend time with the new ladies, and the more time we spend the more comfortable we'll get.  One of the ladies actually walks the same way we do to leave so we spoke a bit more to her then (before she'd claimed not to speak English but I don't buy it).  I think that walk will help us get closer.  Another of the ladies brings her baby daughter with her, so playing with her will also help us.

We struggled a bit with figuring out measurements and logistics for the new products, but we'll get there.

There was less attention on us today, so I wonder if people are starting to get used to our presence.  On our way out of the school though, one girl gave me a note (yesterday she had asked how to spell our names).  I'm not sure if I made it clear, but we're working with the women on the school grounds of Child of Hope.  It's adorable and I'll have to write her one back, though I'm struggling since I'm not sure what to write back.

The homemade envelope

We also went on our own today, which is nice since we're getting to know the way better.  We also discovered that the internet cafe has DELICIOUS milk shakes!  Good to know.  Ah and this morning we tried really good chocolate and found good biscuits.

And this evening we got to know Saleh (our host)'s younger daughter, Nina a lot better.  She's so cute and we were playing in the lobby then when we went to our room she knocked very lightly and slowly opened the door and then cautiously walked in but once she was in she went straight to Jessica's bed and started climbing.  It was so cute, the two of them playing with Jessica's hair stuff.  At the end we learned that she loves cleaning up, since she wouldn't leave until everything was back away.

Nina checking herself out in the mirror with all of Jessica's headbands on