August 30, 2003

Greetings to all!

In case you haven’t guessed already, I made it safely to India on Friday morning and have been getting adjusted since then. The other volunteer, Jill, and I arrived in Mumbai (Bombay) Thursday night at midnight (1:30 in the afternoon central time). We went through customs and flew the hour and a half to Kochi in Kerala. Thomas John our coordinator was waiting for us at the airport and drove us to Alwaye to his home. Jill will be spending the year here in Alwaye while I will be two hours away in a town called Kottayam.

We were exhausted when we first got here but have learned how to eat using our fingers (right hand only, of course) and some choice words in Malayalam: rain, hand, thank you, God and umbrella. Essentials, of course.

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