After a Very Long Time

Hello everyone!

After a very, very, very inexcusibly long time I am writing to report some of the happenings in the past month.

Dad came back from his travels and we spent some time together. That was very nice. He was the honored guest at the Little Lambs Sports Day two weeks back. He passed out the prizes and shook every ones hand. I think they all enjoyed that very much. He did too, I hope.

Two weeks ago he and I went to Ooty, which is what is called a hill station. A hill station, as far as I can tell, is a city that grew up around a train station that the British thought frightfully necassary. It was very beautiful and very cold. We didn't have anytime to do any hiking or trecking, which was a shame, but we did go for a few long walks. The town was very sweet and an unexpected haven for international cuisine. I recomend Sidewalk Cafe, a little Italian-American all veg diner, (it was actually almost diner like) and Shin Kow Chinese, which was the best Chinese I've had since I was in Hong Kong (so pretty damn good).

This last weekend Adis and I went to Bangalore to experience India's most progressive city. And believe me it is. I even saw some knees. We got in very early Saturday morning and left late Sunday night. Unfortunatly the hotel we were in was only 24 hour, so after burning the midnight oil at a very cool club until quite late, we had to be up and out of our hotel at 7:40 am. Which was pretty good hell. But we had a very relaxing four hour lunch at a fantastic Italian place. We actually only had two meals the whole time we were in Bangalore and they were both at this Italian place. But the food was out of this world. A meal like what we had on sunday probably would have been in the 100-150 dollar range in the US. It was two hours of tiny bits of things on sticks and such and then a main and dessert. I was shocked. I still am shocked. Can't you tell.

Saturday was reasonalby uneventful because we were very tired and napped until around noon. We met some lovely people on the train. I haven't met any nice, educated not insane Indians since I've been here. But that was Friday night. Oh yes Saturday! I remember, the highlight of the day, aside from some shopping by me, was watching Manchester United get absolutly slaughtered by Liverpool. Apparently, according to Adis, it was a very, very important game. I really enjoyed watching it. Man U got the first goal, and then Liverpool got four which was very, very, very unexpected. Two of the goals were really brilliant. Even I can tell that. Sorry Mum, I think I might be becoming a football fan. And not just any football, but Liverpool.

Sigh....

Anyway, I wish I could talk a bit more about school, but it seems very mundane to me. Tomorrow I will write up a typical Tuesday. I hope it proves interesting.

And one final surprise. On Wednesday, after school, I am doing a visa hop to Thailand for five days!

Exciting, no?