Rice Harvesting!

Yesterday was the most exhausting day I (Filip) have had here in Nepal.  At the end of the day I was so tired, I couldn't get up to go to prayer meeting, I feel asleep at 5 pm.  That morning, when I walked out of our apartment I saw a church family harvesting their rice.  I thought, "You know, this would be a good thing to try while I am here."  If you have never seen rice grown, it looks similar to that of wheat fields, except its growing in moist, wet ground.  So, I got a small sickle, and started cutting.  The Nepali people working at the hospital compound started watching this foreigner in the fields.  People laughed, stared, whispered, and thought, "How much are you paying him?"  After you cut the rice stalks, its stacked, then carried to a holding place to then actually take off the rice capsules from the stalks.  These people work sooooo hard.  To be honest there is no laziness allowed.  It's survival work, or starvation.  The average person makes less then 70 rupees, equal to one dollar.  The family I was helping had the father carrying the stacks, then the mother, and two daughters were cutting the stalks.  You wouldn't believe it, but even the 76 year old grandmother was cutting the stalks in the mud too!  Incredible!   Nepal is like Bible times.