Tonight was our night in the convent. and wow, there were a lot of bugs. I guess it wasn't really that bad, but I could have done without all of the dead spiders...
During the day we went to a wholesale market that was much more organized thatn the last one we visited. It was government operated and cheaper than private owned ones for people to sell produce. Then we went back to the NGO (KIDS) and listened to presentations on fibres and the women who collect them and construct products from them.
Then we went to the church that the KIDS organization was a part of. I found the church to be very interesting because of the Indian influence on the Catholic Church. The statues (Jesus, Mary, ect) were in the "boxes" much like the Hindu Dieties are and they were decorated with strings of flowers and rupees and lots of bright colors. It also appeared that people prayed to them in the same mannar they prayed to the Hindu dieties.
After spending some time there we went on a boat through the backwaters to the "
"gateway of India" or the place where the monsoons all come in and what colombus was looking for. It was pretty cool, to look from the backwaters into the sea, and learn more about that. Tomorrow we take a full day and night backwater cruise.
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