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Freddy’s Fun Facts                      Meet Lun



      The Himalayan Mountains are
         located in five Indian states.        What is it like where you live? Do you live
         They are one of the largest           in a busy town or in the country?
         mountain chains in the world.
                                                       Lun lives and works in Calcutta, India. Calcutta is a
          i
      ndi is the national                               crowded city, and the people are very poor.
         H
         language. It is spoken by                        She is originally from Manipur, a state in northeast
         nearly one-third of the                               India.
         people. English is also
         widely spoken.                                         Lun rides the train three days and nights to
                                                                travel to Manipur to visit her family. Her father
      There are approximately                                  owns a store there.
         30 different languages                             Read as Lun tells a little about herself:
         that are each spoken by                       I attended Bible college in Calcutta, and I am now serving the Lord
         more than one million                         here. I live and work at the ECI Happy Home.
         people.
                                                       I help care for the 24 children who live here.
      The national animal is the                     They range in age from 3 to 13. Their parents don’t have enough
         tiger. The national bird is the             money to take care of them.
         peacock.
                                                      So, with the help of caring Christians in the United States, the
      dia produces the most tea                     children live here. I cook for them, and I help them with their
         I
         n
         and spices.                           homework when they return from school.
                                               One of the special talents that Jesus has given me is the
      Most Indians travel by bus or           ability to sew well. People send me fabric, and I use it to
         train. The longest train              make dresses and pants for children whose clothes are torn
         journey from north to south           or too dirty to wear anymore.
         takes 89 hours.                       On Sundays, the Happy Home becomes a church, and
                                               people come to hear about Jesus.
      The Taj Majal took 22 years
         and 20,000 workers to build.
                                               Cook’s Corner: Chapati is a common type of
                                               Indian bread, usually eaten with cooked lentil soup or vegetable
                                               dishes. The chapati is wrapped around each bite of the cooked
                                               dish, and then picked up and eaten.


                 Join Shoba and her monkey,
                 Fuzzy Patel, as they journey
                 to Mumbai. Along the way,
                 they meet many interesting
                 characters and have some
                 surprising experiences.

                 The Road to Mumbai

                 By Ruth Jeyaveeran
                 ISBN 0-618-43419-4






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