September 20^th

So, the electricity's out. It went out a few minutes ago. It's not Thursday. So I'm huddled up in the living room under the light that has a generator attached doing homework.

They fumigated ACM today. So, instead of working in an environment with disease-carrying mosquitoes, we studied in an environment saturated with poisonous chemicals. Seems like a good trade.

I think around nine of us are sick. Because of the rampant diseases in our midst, our Ganesh holiday on Wednesday is being canceled. We were supposed to have a slumber party at one of the families' houses that overlooks the Ganesh procession. Now, we aren't going to. We have Thursday off this week, though, so some of us are going to get together and do some shopping and sight-seeing.

This evening, my aai brought in a brigade of women to see the damage from last night's balcony accident. I was stretched out working on some homework, and she came in leading three of her friends so they could all see the chunk of rock that fell from the ceiling. It was a big rock.

And then, the men came to see. Apparently, it's kind of the talk of the building...