Goa Vacation

We leave tomorrow night to catch the train that will take us to Goa in South India for our vacation this year.
We love Goa for its beaches and pools and yummy food and kid-friendliness.

This year our whole family cannot fit on one motorcycle so I'll have to drive a scooter as well. Hence I was up at 6AM this morning practicing on the open ground on my brother-in-law's scooter. Not a fun notion but I guess I really need to get over my road fear sometime...

I'll probably be away from the computer for 10 days or so.

My HOT Post

Every summer I post that everyone has gone home on vacation and I’m lonely, likewise I generally post about how stinkin’ HOT it is. So here it is people.

It’s hot, every year, and every year I will let you know just how hot it is.

A couple days ago I was in the car around 4:30 in the afternoon and it was so hot that it felt cooler (Ha!) to sit in the car with the windows UP than to have the heated air blowing in on me from outside.

It’s so hot that when I go outside in the daylight my skin cracks and peels right off my face. OK, not really but it feels like it will.

It’s hot, I don’t know how hot ‘cause I don’t understand that centigrade stuff, but it’s hot. Real hot. India hot.

By the way, Happy May Day to those who care.

Beginning Of Vacation Season

I always get blue during summer vacation in India. The mass exile of people returning to their home places has already begun and I face a lonely month of May.

I'm a people person. I get energized living in my little community and now most everyone is leaving. Hummm. Except us. We have plans to be in the USA during July - September of this year so we're not going anywhere on vacation. Of course, my girls are out of school and my house is continuously filled with children (why don't they go anywhere????) Today was like the first real day of vacation, I've got to develop some kind of discipline/schedule for sure.

O. is not here. He went to his cousin's wedding in Rajasthan. He also took with him his older sister Shekha, who has suffered from TB for years. She completed the full course of TB meds last year but this past Friday (during C.'s birthday party and before the wedding, all on the same day , you know) she had another relapse. She's been getting sicker and sicker this past month or so. O.'s in Rajasthan with her now deciding whether to admit her in a hospital there or to do it here. Her four children are with me. Pray for them all.

I think I'll start teaching everyone reading tomorrow.