Ichi's Family

We became adopted by a certain family in the short month we were in Bangladesh. Zacharia knew them previously and was helping them. When we first met them they took us in to their modest home and immediately became our friends. Thereafter, I think we would usually get daily visits : )


The family's income comes from selling tea and fried foods in a shack. The father is paralyzed so the whole family has to pitch in. This is the mother and one of the daughters. They would always give us free food when we walked by. It was really hard to refuse.


Lots of people gather at their two bedroom home. There is always lots of laughter and fun and no one seems to be phased by the dirt floors, leaky tin roof, and animals wandering about.


The second room is where the animals are kept - mainly goats, cats, and chickens. There is only one bed that everyone piles onto.


The girls loved to comb my hair and put their jewelry on me.




Eventually, they got me into a sari also.


They kept saying "sooo beautiful!" haha


Meet "big smile". Jason first started calling him this and it stuck (can you see why??). Now everyone calls him this and when we come around he says it. There are a few phrases the kids like to say. Some others are "sit down" and "stand up" and "how are you"


They love to feed us of course...


S P I C Y


This is the star, Ichi. She put on a dance performance one night for us and she is really an amazing dancer.


This was on the last night there. We had fun taking pictures together.







The girls had such a good time dancing with Jason always. We will miss this family alot.