Anniversaries

Inna and I celebrated our first anniversary a couple weeks ago on August 25th. We actually went over that night to a friends home to see her new baby. The funny thing is that her and her husband's anniversary was on the same day. In fact, they were married on the exact same day we were, August 25, 2007! Needless to say, we weren't able to attend each others weddings. Her and her family (Meskhetian Turk Muslim) moved to the States from Russia back in late 2006 and we have been friends since that time, teaching them English and just hanging out with them. Here is their family back then (along with some of us Bridge City folk)...


....And now... Sevda, the mother of the newborn has a white head covering and her husband is standing next to her. The others are from left to right...Elzara (sister), Maxhira (mother) with baby, Murad (brother) and Zarina (sister)

My first delivery, kind of

This happened a couple weeks ago, but thought it was worth posting...back on Thursday night, August 21st I got a call from one of the women Bridge City works with, Sun Sun Yu. She is a Burmese Buddhist, but her and her family have been coming to our bible studies for some time now. She called me saying "Teacher, friend stomach ache" and "baby". I put the two together and quickly realized her friend (named Naw Paw) was in labor! She was asking if I could drive them to the hospital! I quickly put on my shoes and ran out of the apartment to pick her and her friend up. Sure enough, her water had broken and she was in labor. This was her third child and she didn't scream once in the car ride, just a couple of soft moans. Forty-five minutes after we got to the hospital she had delivered a healthy baby boy. Interestingly enough, husbands apparently don't get involved when the child is born in their culture, just the girlfriends! Her husband doesn't drive and couldn't take her to the hospital anyhow. Here is a picture of the baby eight days later in Naw Paw's home. Naw Paw is to the far left and Sun Sun Yu is next to her.