Feb 18 Karang, A.M.B.C.V.

We stop at the Kharang church this Friday 18th, where Gail will preach Sunday. We visit the school, meet women of the church and, at tea, our hosts through the weekend, Rev. Nangroi, and Thwissila Khasbithae, a young mother who is the administrator of the Annie Margaret (Barr) Children's Village, our home for the next three days (blessed with a western style toilet). Two of the church women leaders take us to yet another new school being built in an insanely beautiful spot, near the local health center, where on the walk people pass some undocumented (or at least unmarked) ancient monoliths.
At AMCV, Rilum and Thwissila welcome us in the kitchen. I waste no time in running an extension cord for Thwissila's computer, recently moved from her home: they'd been waiting two weeks for an electrician to hard wire it – just like the states! (Except that the wires are 220 volt – Yikes! Friday night movies – an old horror movie in Hindi, which very few in Khasi Hills speak, and an Arnold Schwarzenegger thriller.