<p>or to be specific, my little village in South India - I can't believe there is an internet cafe here! (there is a cow munching on leaves outside the door).</p>
<p>If you want, you can follow my journeys at shantinik.blogspot.com</p>
<p>Meanwhile at the wedding (you'll have to read the blog to find out about it) I met a future Smithie from Wisconsin!</p>
<p>mini: I have often been heard to say, as big as the world is that's how small it is too!</p>
<p>Have fun. I'm off to read your blog.</p>
<p>Thanks. Our future Smithie is now well-ensconced here - she working at pre-college training program, teaching English to Dalits (untouchables) in the day time, and in the evening, is working in a hostel for children of leprosy sufferers.</p>
<p>She'll fit right in.</p>
<p>Lots of new blog entries.</p>
<p>WOW!!!! Mini, what an experience! I'll be following the blog every day. Take it all in!</p>
<p>whoa cool...the weather must be unbearably hot though, mini!</p>
<p>Coolish where we are (between two mountain ranges), but the heat in Madurai makes the asphalt boil (and it is not the "hot" season, which is April/May.</p>
<p>Is this weather normal for that part of India or abnormal by historical standards?</p>
<p>Rather normal - just the usual cycle of droughts and floods, exacerbated by huge dams up river towards Karnataka. But we had a little rain yesterday.</p>
<p>New blogs up! shantinik.blogspot.com</p>