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Welcome to the Hanham Family website.
(10/25/09 (Suzanna) Can you believe that here we are on the other side of the world and this Muslim friend is singing, “Almost Heaven, West Virginia” to us? Suzanna enjoyed harmonizing with him.
We have many varieties of bananas year-round (including these growing on trees outside our windows). Some varieties of small bananas have black seeds like grapes!
No electricity? No problem when you have an old-fashioned treadle sewing machine! This tribal family lives in our city and have become close friends. We recently enjoyed a meal cooked by this woman who is binding the edges of a blanket she wove.
We treated our language teacher to a lunch buffet – the first buffet she had ever experienced.
Construction workers having lunch break
Like our national friends, we are eating without utensils, using our right hand only
Our Hindu cook brought his daughter, Puja, to visit during their biggest festival of the year – Durga Puja. They live in a bamboo hut and have no running water. Puja had never had an iced drink, she did not like it; so her dad poured it back into the Coke bottle and took it home. We suspect he used the Durga Puja bonus we gave him to buy her new clothes. Durga Puja is like our Christmas, and employers are expected to give bonuses. We also help with medical and education costs for his family. Shonkar is such a blessing to us – a faithful, hard-working man. He had flu recently but came to work anyway, probably afraid he would lose his job. We of course sent him back home, paid his medical costs, and insisted he get well before he worked again.
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