we went straight to Kolkatta on a train

after the virginia team left. The streets were full of fish markets and kittens watching the fish markets, and me holding the kittens watching the fish markets. One day we visited the vocational unit where prostitutes work and are discipled during the day. They made new quilts out of old saris. I was conversing with someone when a pigeon flew in from the stairwell right in front of my face and scared me so bad. Pigeon, that was so not cool.

On the way home we took a 2 hour flight instead of a 20 hour train ride. Praise him. I sat next to a white man, and right before we took off i asked him where he was from. South Africa he said. We chatted a bit and he asked me why i was going to Vijay. I said im not going to Vijay im going to Delhi. He paused. No your going to Vijay he said. I said No. your going to Delhi. He then bolted out of his seat and ran off the plain shouting a thankyou. Im glad i talked to him. His day could have been very bad.

In kolkatta we went to the red light district at peak hours. I went home and cried.

This morning i skyped with my fam + Jes. Its hard getting in the christmas mood here. Yesterday i was a girls home and one of the workers had a pair of christmas socks on. A shiver went down my spine. I had to look away. Christmas. sigh. I LOVE YOU (screaming) New Jersey seems like a dream. Kinda like when Anastasia is dancing in the dusty ballroom with all those old russian ghosts and she sees the vase with swans and bears on it. They all join in a spooky chorus about distant memories. Im going to dedicate that comment to my cousins. They like Anastasia.

I was reading the Word this morning, and i was like God give me something good. I wound up looking at the miracles of Elisha.
2 kings 2:23-25
From there Elisha went up to Bethel as he was walking along the road, some youths came out of the town and jeered at him. "Go on up, you baldhead!" they said. "Go on up you baldhead!" He turned round, looked at them and called down a curse on them in the name of the Lord. Then two bears came out of the woods and mauled forty-two of the youths. And he went on to Mount Carmel and from there returned to Samaria."
I guess God wanted me to laugh today.
I'll summarize another funny miracle.
Company of Elisha: Lets build a bigger house for us by the Jordan.
Elisha: Okay.
Company of Elisha: come and help us.
Elisha: Okay.
they start chopping away at stuff. One of the men's Axe falls apart and the head falls in the water and sinks.
Man: Shoot! Elisha! I was borrowing that from a friend!
Elisha: Where did it sink?
Man: right there.
Elisha: (cuts a stick haphazardly and throws it in the water. The axehead then floats to the top.) Lift it out.
with a smack of love and a 100 mph refreshing Holy Spirit wind,
ali