A Day in the Life of the Lances: Teaching our Teachers

Tonight we had a big party for our friends and our language teacher's family. We taught them how to make pizza and how to play the wii. Spent a few hours speaking Hindi and laughing with our friends. Learning can sometimes wear us down. Make us frustrated when we can't remember or understand. I especially tend to get frustrated because I am a perfectionist. I will make my poor friends listen as I say the same sentence 3 or 4 times until it is grammatically perfect. Tonight was not about perfection. Just fun....I had to be reminded of that a few times as I found myself trying to perfect my Hindi.

Levi taught he kids about tractors, while I served rounds of chai and cookies. (that makes 4 things of chai I made today because we had many visitors). In India, when someone comes to visit, you try to serve them drinks and snacks. Normally this would be chai tea and cookies. I am becoming pretty good at the chai thing.

Here is my recipe: put two teaspoons of tea leaves (I like Taj Mahal and you can use two American tea bags) into 2 cups of water and bring to a boil. Add about 2/3 cup of milk and about 6 teaspoons of sugar. (I taste to make sure it is sweet enough...Levi loves it really sweet ;) Lower the heat and let it start bubbling a little. Then it is ready! I double the recipe with big groups and use some variety when it tastes different. (in India, nothing I make is normally exactly the same the second time I make it....either the sugar is different, there is no box milk available, ect.!)