SO last night...I'm in bed, mosquito net in place, about to drift off to sleep when I hear the screaming and running of 200 girls in the hall upstairs. Sister Lilly and I each come out of our rooms (she is in her nightie AND no habit!) and we are trying to figure out what is going on. We are on the ground floor and so we are looking up at the windows of the second floor. The girls are running around just all screaming. I instantly thought that a man with a gun was upstairs (Sister Jemina thought it was the devil and Sister Madhri thought it was a cobra). It turned out that one girl was talking and moving around in her sleep and ended up touching the girl next to her which caused her to scream and then caused every other girl to scream and run out of the room. Thus causing mass chaos at 10:30 last night. It was SO funny. So sister Lilly and I are trying to figure out what is going on and she is yelling up to the windows (Hey! Ma!! Hey! what is happening!? [Indian accent]) then she starts talking in Telugu and we realize that nothing happened so we go back to sleep.
Tonight we were discussing this at dinner, all telling each other what we each thought the cause of the screaming was. I found out that the sisters sprinkled Holy Water everywhere after this happened - just in case the devil was there...We were discussing this during our candlelit dinner because even though the power was actually on for once, the light bulb was out -and they have to call in a man to change it (hahah, I love it here). So we ate in dark and then we hear an eruption of dogs barking. We all stopped talking and started laughing. We did not check the status of the dogs though, we just kept eating.
We're in India!!
-side note to Brenda, if you are reading this, please let me know your response. You can picture Sister Lilly and the candlelit dinner because the Tube-light was out. oh man, I wish you were here for this!
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