I had just arrived home from college today when I suddenly came to know that Mother Mary's statue is coming to my neighbor's place. This really excited me as it was the first time that I was getting to experience it in Goa . It is a tradition very much prevalent in Goa particularly in the villages where in the months of September and October the statue of Mother Mary visits the houses of the people living in that particular village and along with the statue come a group of people with candles singing beautiful hymns in praise of Mother Mary. So I and my mother set off to the neighbour's place in our village of Parra where we waited for the statue to arrive. In the meantime, we got a chance to meet many people from our village we don't get to meet otherwise such as Nobert, one of the neighbours who just lives nearby and Mary, an old friend to my mother. These are the people that my mother knows about very well considering the fact that she was born and brought up in...