Normal day at work tried some morew smelling to build up vocab and worked on manners wioth the older boys. Real hot sao not as many kids turn up. IT is difficult to make progress as not every kid turns up every day. Many have to stay at home to look after the babies if the mother is sick or has run off which often happens). And when there are different levels in the class it is tiring trying to keep everyone interested. Glad to get home and shpower today. Kali had left us a snack of noodles (yummy) as we are off the Sucharitas for dinner. It is Didi (her grand-daughter) 10th birthday.
We brought out saris and Sucharita helped us dress. We all looked glam. Sat outside watching the kids play their party games, had the hugest cake ever and waited for the bufft. It started to rain slightly but in Sucharita laid-back manner she simply said “so what?” and insited everyone reamin outside for dinner.
Food was amasing with waiters to dish it out. Finally had some meat, yippee. Had fish and a chicken curry thing and rice and some lentil spicey thing and S had specially prepared a “SAfe” saad for us which was divine. About 50 people came and went – all thrugh the even ing people were arriving and others leaving. Was strange to see such well-dressed civalised people eating with their hands.
A family gave me and Laura a lift home and he was most hapy to hear I as from N Ireland and talked abut Irish Lit the whole way home. We wqere grately admired in our saris and as Laura and I walked down the road to our apartment a couple stopped to say how good we looked and even noted that I walked “Elegantly”. The security man on the door was all smiles and said we were very beautiful.
