vacation in paradise

This will be a short one because I am literally being charged by the minute for the internet connection.

We are in Kerala! We have been teaching in Chennai for six weeks (I cant believe it has gone by so quickly) so 15 of us took off on a small vacation during our long weekend to this beach town south of Chennai. (go look it up on a map).



This place is breathtaking. We are staying in a ayurvedic beach resort (once again, go look up what an ayurvedic resort is...no time to explain right now). Since July is considered the "off-season" in South India, this resort is almost empty and we feel like we run the place. Each room is its own little bungalow hut with a small patio overlooking the blue waters (which means it is clean to swim in!!). All of the little huts have hammocks in the front yard and incense and little garden of native plants and Hindi statues. We get lots of fantastic room service meals of both Indian and Western cuisine and after the food at CSI, we can't get enough, especially since it is inculded in the package



Deepa and I just got done eating an order of spring rolls and pineapple juice on our patio while taking in the view and getting ready for the traditional dance performance which we will be attending tonight. You can count on pictures of that :)



I will write more later when I find a more affordable place to use the internet. Tomorrow we are spending the morning sightseeing and hopefully finding an elephant to ride and in the afternoon we are hanging out by the beach.



If you are getting really jealous, which you should be, just know that we only have four short days here. Then its back to work in Chennai.



more later



-S



p.s. for those of you that expect regular phone calls, don't expect any for a while. Not only have I run out of minutes on my Indian phone, but I am currently battling a serious case of laryngitis and have no voice at all. It actually hurts to speak and no one can really understand me anyway.