It is Wednesday night. Today due to a holiday we did not have a medical camp. Instead, we went to tour a second Good Shepherd orphanage in Kollodam. It was about 70 kilometers away.
I have a new game for all of you to play from home called "Guess what was on the motorcycle!" There are a lot of bikes on the road here. Against all laws of physics, they are not limited to one person. It is common to see multiple people on a bike. Women ride side-saddle. No one, and I mean no one, wears a helmet. They are not big Harley Davidson-type bikes. Instead, they are pretty small.
Today, I saw a family of four on a bike. Dad was driving, the two kids were in the middle, and Mom was side saddle on the back. I also saw this gem: Dad was driving and a young child was in front laying down sleeping on the gas tank. The kicker is that the Dad also had his cell phone out. There have been some chickens on bikes too.
We also see a lot of motorized rickshaws. They have a motorcycle front and two bench seats in back. They are enclosed and a little bigger than a golf cart. Twice I saw them today with about a dozen people packed inside.
The kids at the orphanage danced for us this afternoon. The problem is that they asked us to also dance for them. It was not pretty.
Yesterday there was a cloud that covered the blazing sun briefly. For just a few minutes, I think the temperature dropped to 84. Brrrrrrrrr.
