12 things I did and learned in the past two days.

Did:
1. Bought and ate lychees from a vendor on Commercial Street. (If you don't know what a lychee is, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lychee).
2. Picked out beads from three little girls to create new jewelry designs for the women in the Rahab's Rope Jewelry-making program.
3. Learned that "Nimma yaseru Emily" means "My name is Emily" in Kannada.
4. Ate Indian food the Indian way. In India, the left hand is considered unclean, so you can only use your right hand to eat....and "fork" and "spoon" are gibberish terms here...so you literally just use your right hand.
5. Said a bad word when a 6-foot long snake slithered across the road in front of me this afternoon, a comfortable 10 feet away...and then found out when I asked Stephanie about it that cobras are common in this area...

Learned:
1. Every 6 hours in India, a woman is beaten or stabbed to death, or harassed to the point of committing suicide.
2. There are 100,000 CSWs (commercial sex workers) in Bangalore alone.
3. In the slum that is a ten minute walk from my apartment, 8-10 baby girls are slaughtered each month.
4. India is growing at a rate of 1.34% increase each year, so at this rate, next year there will be a total of 1.5 billion people in the country.
5. 37.2% of the people in India are illiterate.
6. 2.3 million people in India are living with HIV/AIDS (0.3% of the population) http://www.avert.org/aidsindia.htm
7. Each hour, four women and girls enter the sex industry in India.

Remembered:
1. God is sovereign.
2. God is just.
3. God's love is immeasurable and unfailing.