Yeah, the computer died as it was attempting to post that last entry: I guess it was just too heavy and poetical for the poor beast! Don't worry, y'all, you just missed a rant about being a white woman in India, plus an exploration of the different manifestations of unity. I don't really have the heart to repeat it now, ask me if you're interested.
But after the computer died, and Emma and I were going to leave, the guy who ran the place said, "Oh no, don't leave now, a boy was just killed by hooligans and it's not safe downstairs." Oh boy. So we sat for awhile and drank tea that they were nice enough to serve us, and after about half an hour we got the all-okay and left. So yeah, that was interesting. And don't worry, once again this doesn't mean that Calcutta is unsafe or anything. It's just not quite as safe as Swat, perhaps. And last night I went to a dinner party with lots of awesome people, hosted by this wonderful crazy Dutch lady writer who's in my Bengali class and her husband, who's Bengali: she's the type who's probably in her mid 60's, but acts like she's 20 and has only laugh lines. They're a really cool couple: as we were looking at their wedding pictures from a few months ago, his comment was, "After 10 years we decided to make each other honest!" Sooo cute! The food was AMAZING Bengali cuisine, and since the entire company consisted of artists or students, we had some very interesting discussions about teaching and gurus, and some extremely offensive (and therefore hilarious, of course) joke-telling, as well as the Americans among us indulging in some sarcastic humor, which simply does not exist here: people don't understand it! Of course, it went late, as these things do, and I definitely didn't get enough sleep before mime class, the highlight of which was a test consisting of "show us cricket:" gulp! Thankfully, as I know next to nothing about cricket I got permission to do baseball instead. I'm sure that due to my ever-so-poor interpretation the class was just as confused about our sport as I am about theirs, but that's okay. Who actually understand sports, anyway? :P
By the way, I've been here for two and a half months!!! Craziness, eh?
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