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Today I spent a lot of time with the kids. Three+ hours at the local park. A Hindi lesson for Calli. Then home to bake chocolate chip cookies and attempt to turn them into ice cream sandwiches.
The cookies came out great, partly because I used the good chocolate chips and a lot of them. The ice cream sandwiches came out overly squishy, despite using slightly-melty ice cream and saran wrap and putting them in the freezer. That's what you're supposed to do. It's possible that longer in the freezer would have helped, but I think mostly the ice cream was too melty.
I still remember a little from Hindi class last time. But now we have to memorize a fish nursery rhyme for next week, so we'll see how that goes. This class is clearly at a much faster pace than last time. That's probably a good thing. I do still remember the Gayatri Mantra from last time around, so that's nice.
Today I spent a lot of time with the kids. Three+ hours at the local park. A Hindi lesson for Calli. Then home to bake chocolate chip cookies and attempt to turn them into ice cream sandwiches.
The cookies came out great, partly because I used the good chocolate chips and a lot of them. The ice cream sandwiches came out overly squishy, despite using slightly-melty ice cream and saran wrap and putting them in the freezer. That's what you're supposed to do. It's possible that longer in the freezer would have helped, but I think mostly the ice cream was too melty.
I still remember a little from Hindi class last time. But now we have to memorize a fish nursery rhyme for next week, so we'll see how that goes. This class is clearly at a much faster pace than last time. That's probably a good thing. I do still remember the Gayatri Mantra from last time around, so that's nice.
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Date: 2014-09-07 08:03 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-09-07 08:34 pm (UTC)It's kind of neat seeing the whole church thing from a completely different culture. They have the school-or-church-style posters about what you're supposed to do, but from a completely different set of sensibilities.
Like, they say that jewelry brings out the divine in a woman. You should wear green and red glass bangles, and earrings but not with more than one piercing per ear, and a necklace (mangalsutra) down to the center of your chest (your anahat-chakra.)
And you're supposed to pray a specific prayer for between one and six hours daily, because these days we don't do that enough and so people have a variety of afflictions caused by the souls of our ancestors not being sufficiently cleared out -- apparently that can cause a lot of problems, and they list a few.
Also, eat only good food, sort of like Kosher but with slightly different ideas of "good food" -- a strong emphasis on fresh meat, grains and ghee, if I remember right. And fill your stomach half with food and a quarter with water, leaving the other quarter-full for air.