Food, glorious food!

This is the kitchen where food is prepared for those, like me, who eat in the dining room. This only includes a handful of people. There's a separate, larger kitchen where they prepare food for the hostel children and the leprosy clinic. 

Here are Nagibunesa and Sakiran, making roti. 

This is breakfast. A mango ("am"), an egg ("anda"), a roti ("roti"), and potatoes ("aloo"). Every day it's the same except for the potatoes which can be replaced by cauliflower or okra. 

I pay extra for my food (6,000 rupees per month = 90 dollars). The others eating around the table pay 2,500 rupees per month (36 dollars) but don't get fruit or eggs. 

This is lunch. It's always rice and watery dahl, plus variable vegetables. When they saw how crazy I was about the mangoes, they only bought mangoes for my fruit. 

I pay extra for brown rice. It seems very rare for anyone to eat that. I was surprised they found it in Raxaul. 

There aren't any utensils except for your fingers.

At lunch with the accountant Anil and his assistant Pinku. Nagibunesa gets bored in the kitchen and comes to join us. 

This is mango season and they are to die for. The cooks laughed at how much I loved the mangoes. 

My last day at Little Flower. The cooks are sad and a little clingy, which can make it hard to eat!

During my last days, I am joined by another paleface. And so I now finally have a few pictures of  myself. 

Ashley is a high school art teacher from D.C. She is at Little Flower for a few weeks during her summer vacation. The kids LOVE her art classes since they normally have no exposure to paper or art supplies and school is not supposed to be fun or enjoyable.