Today being our first day with the girls, I used a wide variety of Hindi words. Here's just a sampling:
Aap ka naam? This means, "What is your name?" With 16 girls in the Home, I had to continually ask for names! They're all very unique and pretty, so hopefully I'll have them down soon.
Bat-toe, which means "sit down". We were visiting another friend today (with air conditioning), so we all piled into a large van/bus for the half hour trek to her house. Of course, buses don't have seat belts, so we spent a lot of time reminding the girls to sit down. :)
Sundra the Hindi word for beautiful is a great compliment to share when you're working on coloring pages, which is what the girls were doing for the first part of their visit. They all love to color, even the littlest ones! Sometimes I got to help them, picking out colors and shading this or that. Each action is accompanied by this little compliment, which I can mix up by adding the word behout to make it behout sundra or really beautiful!
Kahna (which to me sounds like carne...root word of carnivore) is the word for food. We had our first official Indian meal today! Rice with vegetable-type curry and yogurt curd, which I think is called daal? It was very good, and the girls like it too. Theirs was accompanied with some chicken nuggets to go along with it. We even had cupcakes for the girls to celebrate someone's birthday, who was turning five today! The adults had chocolate peanut butter bars graciously provided by our host.
Shapatoes...shoes. When you enter a home in India, you generally remove your shoes to keep the floors as clean as possible. It sounds like a great idea, until you're trying to get 16 girls to put on their shoes to head home! With a lot of laughter, and some help all the way around, everyone arrived back home with two shoes on their feet.
*Of course, Hindi doesn't use the Arabic lettering system like English does, so I'm writing my approximation of the phonetic sounds.
Aap ka naam? This means, "What is your name?" With 16 girls in the Home, I had to continually ask for names! They're all very unique and pretty, so hopefully I'll have them down soon.
Bat-toe, which means "sit down". We were visiting another friend today (with air conditioning), so we all piled into a large van/bus for the half hour trek to her house. Of course, buses don't have seat belts, so we spent a lot of time reminding the girls to sit down. :)
Sundra the Hindi word for beautiful is a great compliment to share when you're working on coloring pages, which is what the girls were doing for the first part of their visit. They all love to color, even the littlest ones! Sometimes I got to help them, picking out colors and shading this or that. Each action is accompanied by this little compliment, which I can mix up by adding the word behout to make it behout sundra or really beautiful!
Kahna (which to me sounds like carne...root word of carnivore) is the word for food. We had our first official Indian meal today! Rice with vegetable-type curry and yogurt curd, which I think is called daal? It was very good, and the girls like it too. Theirs was accompanied with some chicken nuggets to go along with it. We even had cupcakes for the girls to celebrate someone's birthday, who was turning five today! The adults had chocolate peanut butter bars graciously provided by our host.
Shapatoes...shoes. When you enter a home in India, you generally remove your shoes to keep the floors as clean as possible. It sounds like a great idea, until you're trying to get 16 girls to put on their shoes to head home! With a lot of laughter, and some help all the way around, everyone arrived back home with two shoes on their feet.
*Of course, Hindi doesn't use the Arabic lettering system like English does, so I'm writing my approximation of the phonetic sounds.
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