Socks and Saree

The title describes today. The weather is now cold in India and it was too cold to be barefoot in the flat today. And yes, after buying a saree in Gosaba, and having the blouse piece stitched, I ventured out to meeting today in a saree. The funniest thing was, I put it on, and then went downstairs to ask the landlady to help me complete it. Then the first sister arrived and remade it, and then the next sister came and started again from scratch...thankfully that was enough, I think i spent an hour having it put on all up. Crazy. But you must have it just right!

The weather has gotten really cold just this past week to the point where we had to buy blankets yesterday to keep brother DC warm when he arrives tomorrow.

He arrives and we leave. And the next lot of fieldworkers train up from Hyd before next weekend. Sad we couldn't have handed over.

Tonight is our last night in Kolk and Erina and David are sleeping the night and we're doing fireworks tonight on the rooftop, and then tomorrow morning having a memorial with David and a pancake brekky before the next crowd arrive and the handover takes place.

The good news from today is that we're going to be attending the whole of the visak camp. We had planned to go to Srikakulam for a week before end of years in Hyd started, but since contacting them all we've found that they're all heading down, so what is the point of visiting individual area's when we can see them all at once at Visak, so am real happy about that. Means a lot less travelling, to see everyone. We'll have 1 night and 1.5 days in Srik and then head on.