Hi everyone! Long time, no post. I'm fine and well except the climbing temperatures in Calcutta are begining to get to me. Tomorrow is Holi, the festival of color. Vendors are selling colored powders on the streets now and tomorrow all of India will be out on the streets attacking friends and even strangers with these colors. People also fill waterballoons and water guns with colored water. 

My tutor arranged for me to have class tomorrow afternoon and she assured me nobody will attack me. I plan to wear old clothing and we'll just see if I can get to class without getting attacked!

Rajdeep has finished his job in China and he returned to his hometown in India a few days ago. Hopefully, I will soon be able to go to Assam, where his family is from, and meet them.

In other new, Ramakrishna Mission, the language school where I study, has asked me to give a short speech in Bengali for their end of the year ceremony. The ceremony will most likely be some weekend in March or early April and I will have to talk in front of 1500 people and on TV! I'm terrified. Plus there are to be dignitaries there too. Great, no pressure.