I had a good nights rest after an adventuresome walk through the streets of Lucknow. As soon as we started walking two 'beggar children' a girl around 6 or 7 and boy about 4 followed us for about 20-30 minutes and just pecked, yes literally pecked at us for money. It broke my heart to just to keep walking and ignore them. They finally gave up, not sure if they cannot go beyond a particular point or what. We walked a long way and saw everyday street life with these shops on the side of the rode; clothes, food, instruments, jewelry, shoes...oh and also cows and goats. We rode a motorized Rickshaw back to the hotel and that was an experience.
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It is currently 8am Thursday here and 10:30pm Wednesday back home in Columbia. Crazy that I'm on a different day.
Today we are going to the GAP Foundation Office to service children of closer villages that will arrive by taxis, bikes, etc. We will be doing the same crafts we did with the other villages; and they'll receive their gifts. We will also give 20 bikes through a donation from our church to the young men AJ disciples.
For Lunch Snelata, AJ's wife has prepared us Byrini Chikan (not mispelling~ that's how they spell Chicken). So we will visit with them.
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