Back to India!

Dear Friends,
We arrived in India about a week ago. We have a couple of old friends
in town who live here and understand how hard it can be just to put
your bags down and relax. They've made it much easier. One of your
fellow students Peggy just arrived today and illustrates just how hard
it can be. Her plane set down at 11:00 pm and she got out of the concourse
and looked around. However our driver whom we always use--Manohar could
not find her and she couldn't find him. So she proved to be very resourceful
and managed to rent a taxi to drive her 3 hours to Mysore then she rented
a rickshaw that overcharged her by ten times to get her to the Shala. Sharath
was there and she asked for me and he put her in the room we rented for
her across the street. Needless to say she was a little discombobulated.
She's sleeping now, but she lives just next to Vivien who is a Taiwanese
woman who runs a restaurant in Gokulum. Today she made Tsampa, which
is a lovely Tibetan fresh bread. I've got a few pictures here that I thought might
interest you. I will post again after I get a good photo of us with Peggy. : - )