The First Week is Completed

It is hard to believe I have been gone a full week.

The days are hot - the evenings quite cool. We had a huge rain shower yesterday - just buckets with thunder, then it was over.

My group is growing - if they all show up - it will be nine now - in about four different levels of learning. I have to do lots of my own preparation to be ready to give them work to do. Monday we will start some basic computer work with them. There are three vols now (one who has been here six weeks already) and another woman besides myself - that will make teaching the levels easiest - though I will be doing the more advanced English (Simple, Continuous, and Perfect tenses - do you remember these in school???)

Tomorrow is a day off and we will go to a temple and have a picnic and play cricket. All of the vols have been invited to a wedding on Wednesday night - how exciting! Last night the women tried on sari - quite a project to get it on but quite beautiful. I am glad we don't have to wear them all the time.

The food is good - I found out mutton is actually goat - and I can eat it with no problem! Sometimes I grow tired of spice three times a day - but then I eat more rice/roti/and yougert to cool it down.

The CCS staff takes wonderful care of us and are full of good information to ease our journey. It is very hard to get used to so many differences.

I took my first yoga class this morning - the teacher asked me to show my version of sun salutation and then we did it his way. There were three of us in a very small room (in a pinch, it would hold maybe eight total mats). We did some sun salutations, then shavasana, then sitting poses, a twist and a brief chant - no ending shavasana (?). I will go again tomorrow - five classes are 1000 Rupees (about $20 US).

Thanks for all your comments and questions.

The pictures are of me in a sari and the house I am living in-this download thing takes quite a while....but pictures are worth so much here to show it reality of it.