More suitcase excitement.

Well, Bob has been spending at least half an hour per day phoning British Airways about our luggage, and today they told him that the suitcases had been delivered to the airport at Guwahati, by Air India. So, after teaching classes in the morning, we headed to the airport to pick them up. The airport is about a 45 minute drive from the school, in the opposite direction from Ray and Ellen's house. Once again, I was impressed by Kuldip's driving. ( He is Ray and Ellen's driver) He doesn't always drive, sometimes Ray does, but he is very impressive. The traffic rules here appear to be mostly based on Darwin's principle: survival of the fittest. The line down the middle is the passing lane, and to use it, you stand on your horn, and pull out. Seems to work. We haven't killed any cattle yet ( not to say people). I'm practicing being cool with the traffic, and it seems to be working. Don't think I'd manage so well driving. As Leesa was saying to me today, you have to be a bit pushy, and chances are we'd get stuck behind something, and just stay there while everyone in the world went past us.

Anyway, the driving is merely interesting on the 4 lane divided ring road, but on the one lane streets and lanes in the city, and up the mountain, it is much more exciting. Who needs sports. Lots of adrenalin flowing there.

Well, when we got to the airport, there was one bag there. It was one of Bob's. So one out of four. We could be doing this for a while at this rate. We may actually have all of our bags by the time we are ready to come home. There are several things I could actually be using about now too. Anyway, this means more hours spent on the phone to British airways. It is wonderful for learning patience, I guess....

Now, to back up just a bit, when we got to the school yesterday, we discovered that it was a holiday, so none of the students were there. However, there are actually two schools: the grade school, where I am teaching right now, and the Bible school, where Bob is teaching, and where Leesa and Trent are teaching their First Aid course this week. The bible school students live on site, so they got to have their classes. Today, I got to go and tell stories with 4 of the classes in the elementary school . I did use a translator, since, while the classes are taught in English, it is not a first language for any of these children, and most are hearing it for the first time at school. Anyway, they enjoyed the story, and they love to sing.

The internet is slowing to a crawl, so I may put pictures in later. I see if I can get this to post.