Underthoughts

My mother and my brother are arriving in three days. They are currently in UK visiting my cousin, his wife and their two daughters. I realised a couple of days ago, while trying to plan their visit here that this will be the first time I get to host my mother, show her around, worry about her lunch and dinner and make sure that she is having a good time. It has always been the other way around, where I go on holiday to Mauritius and they take  care of me.

Because my term of service is only  year, I don’t have holidays so I was worried about having my family here without having any one to show them around. Luckily for me, Vanya who served here before and who also is a family friend of ours is visiting her parents for a month and is arriving the next day. So she gets the privilege to show them around while I’m at work!  It works out pretty well for me since I will not have to worry too much about whether they got on the right sherut to bahji, whether they made it safely to the hadar and whether or not they get ripped off by taxis.

Vanya and I have known each other practically since we were born. Our mothers are good friends and we grew up in neighbouring communities. With her being only a year older, we went to the same kindergarten school that was run by a Baha’i lady. People used to say we looked like sisters because we had the same straight black hair with the same haircut,  à la Mireille Mathieu :) . I am looking forward to spend some time with her.  The last time I saw her was maybe three, four years ago. Even though we both went back to Mauritius while we were abroad for our studies, our holidays never coincided.