The Restaurant!!

On Wednesday, Jackie and I took our students to a restaurant for the very first time in their lives!!! It was so great to be able to give them this opportunity to take them to do something that is so common for all of us. The kids were very excited, and of course Jackie and I whipped out our cameras to take pictures of this momentous event. Once we did, all the students wanted to take pictures too, or they wanted to have pictures of themselves! So we gave them our cameras for them to take pics and we took a ton of them as well.

Getting to the restaurant with all of our kids (10) was a completely normal thing in India, but if we had done what we did in India in the US there would be complaints, maybe even lawsuits. We packed in 7 kids, 2 teachers and a driver in a Jeep to transport us to a restaurant. (We had to do 2 trips but the more people you can pack in the better.) That is how the Indians do it here. They cram as many people as you can possibly fit in a car, truck, bus, even a motorcycle and go. I can't tell you how many times I have seen people practically hanging off trucks, and tiny cars with 10-15 people inside. You will even see a whole family on a motorcycle that includes mom, dad, daughter, and son. And no the motorcycle is not any bigger than a regular size motorcycle.

Anyway, we transported our kids to the restaurant in good ol' Indina fashion and it worked out fine, no problems. I think the kids had a great time, and they were the most well behaved, well mannered group of kids you have ever seen. It was a great experience not only for the students but for us as well. We were able to show them something they had never done before. That was really cool!