Teaching today and starting to wrap up

In the next post, I'll update you on my teaching of the monks and nuns. We are doing an investigation with electroscopes and then analyzing the way the lesson was designed by me. I'm starting to get into the home stretch and finalizing work here to return to Atlanta.

The monsoon season normally starts in June and there's been progressively more threatening weather rolling in. It POURED rain this afternoon (as was the case on the day we went for the teaching at the Tibetan Children's Village) for about 2 hours. Tonight, as I finished up my lesson, the thunder and lightning began. We locked up the classroom in the pitch black since the lights had gone out (as was the case for the air conditioning too, unfortunately!). I made it back to my dorm room in total darkness; thank goodness for the lightning so I could see well enough to make it back without tripping. The lights and AC came on about 10 minutes later and I feel lucky that the AC and the computer are working again. There's terrible rumbling going on but at least it is not raining at the moment.

Because of the weather, I switched my flights to return a day early (same flights just one day earlier). I changed my plans because yesterday I was cautioned against believing that I could leave on Wednesday and actually make it home to Atlanta on Thursday without a glitch for a meeting with my C&C staff on Friday. C&C (Challenge & Champions) is a great middle school program that I direct for the university through our department every summer. It begins next week and our first full staff meeting was supposed to be about 18 hours after I returned if I hadn't changed my flight to one day earlier.

I guess the monsoon rains would be a bad thing when I am in that little prop plane on the way to Delhi. I was told that the Delhi flights should not be too affected by the storms this early in the season but all bets are off when leaving from here in bad rain.

I mentioned in my earlier post today that I was at the STD tea shop to place a call to Delta and that was the reason I was calling. It took too many rupees and way too much time to make this switch. It is a bit of irony that I am in India but they told me that I had to call the call center for Delta in Atlanta to make the reservation change. And of course, they gave me a number that only went to an automated system with no people to talk to. Many calls and many rupees later, I finally got a real person on the line who knew what to do. Sherry and Richard, there might be a job for you two on this situation! (Sherry and Richard are our friends who are consultants in telephone service quality. It's this kind of stuff that keeps them busy.)

If I'm lucky, the electricity will stay on long enough to read for a bit before bed.

Here's hoping the electrons keep flowing thru the wire and don't flow thru the window,
karen