Ok, so it's been way to long, I know. Mauf Kijiye. Forgive me. I have a few good excuses ready for you all, and you can choose your favorite, or just make up a new one, if you'd like. First, two weeks ago, as you saw in my pictures, I went to Delhi for my Midterm break and met with my Hindi teacher from UVA. I stayed with the parents of my teacher's daughter-in-law, a charming and elderly Punjabi couple who fed me far far too much and then when I couldn't eat more fed a little more. I saw the sights of Delhi, and even got taken for an Indian, like 5 times. I even got the citizen's rate a monument or two, and was asked for directions on the metro more times than would seem prudent given my shaky understanding of the Delhi Metro. It was lovely to meet with my teacher and meet two of her sons, their wives and my teacher's two ADORABLE grandchildren, Kabir and Aatish, aged 4 months and 2 years respectively. 

Second, Last week I was sick and then until yesterday I was fighting off some of the unfortunate effects of the medicine I was prescribed.

Class is going well, and we've seen some really interesting movies for our film class. Today we saw the best one we've seen so far - Mirch Masala. totally worth checking it out. It has a really awesome symbolic representation of mirch, or chilis, and nazar, or evil eye. In the film, and evil subedaar, or tax collector, falls for a village woman who refuses his advances. She finds refuge in a mirch masala factory, where she waits out the fallout from the subedaar's anger, until he attacks. Then, she exacts revenge on him by pouring mirch powder into his eyes. The connection her is that mirch is traditionally used to get rid of nazar, which in the movie was brought on by the woman's beauty. So she protects herself by hiding surrounded by mirch, and then physically burns out the mans "nazar capabilities" by chemically destroying his eyes. I was so excited when I saw this while watching the movie, and immediately shared it with the whole class and now all of you. :) They were excited, too, so I hope you will be. Symbol fun. :)

Ok, I'll update more frequently now I'm not ill or traveling, and I hope everyone's doing well!!! I'll see you all in 3.5 weeks!!!!