Dolly went to Mumbai yesterday to visit her aunt, who came over to accompany her sister for a medical procedure. However, the sister's flight was delayed because of a pilot strike, and so her aunt is here alone for about a week. I was originally going to go, but then the itinerary started involving flying all over the place, and it just sounded too hectic and expensive. So I'm here in Bilaspur alone, and this is already the longest we've been apart in over three months!

Last night while I was waiting for dinner and working on the computer, a schoolteacher from down the hall came by with a book for 1st graders to help me with my Hindi. The funny thing is that it has pictures of things like a cow or carrot, and the Hindi word underneath it. The only problem is, I don't know what half of the words are in Hindi! There is a page with birds, and I don't know what a single one is. Luckily I have another book which has the alphabet and the English equivalents of the letters. I think it will end up being useful, especially the parts where it breaks the letters down a few at a time, with the large script handwriting to trace and then write on your own, lol.