Chennai and then Gone Again

I think my last post was in Pondicherry.

I left the next morning to Mahabs to go see Asif, my Kashmiri friend and then ended up staying over with him because all the buses were too crowded.

I arrived in Chennai and was met by Tamilselvin and Tejaas. I got to see Shakila's new house. It is really fantastic. Much nicer than their old one. I took Tejaas and Oviyaa out for ice cream on Monday, which was really fun. Tamilselvin had invited an old school friend over, so we had a really nice party that night.

The next morning was a different kind of party. I've been having some lice problems and so I decided to get Shakila's help in removing them. And we removed tons. Probably a hundred lice. And about fifty eggs. It was horrible, embarassing and just no fun. But I think I am clear now, at least I will be when I use the stuff one more time, next week.

But I did have a good day. We all three went to the old neighborhood and took some of the kids out for ice cream (a very popular activity) and then had lunch with Leela, another teacher, at my favorite resturaunt. After that we went back to Shakila's, did mahendi, had a nice goodbye and headed off to a 36 hour train ride to Jaipur.

So I'm in Jaipur now. I got here this morning. It's nice, but a very dry hot. We are going to a movie at 12:30 at the most famous theater in India. We head tonight to Odipur.