First day At Mayo College

Just a short note at the end of a very long, but satisfying day.


Started with delicious Indian breakfast at the Mumbai Cricket Club overlooking the cricket grounds. Had a very nice conversation with Kennan, and then went to the Raina's beautiful apartment - it is in a building behind another building, on a quiet street near the ocean. They are on the third floor, and surrounded by a dense canopy of trees, filled with birds. Renu Raina says that she has taken photos of some 50 different species of birds that stop over during migrations.

She and Shailesh were wonderful hosts, and we had a lovely lunch with Lisa and Mike Johnson, parents of Branch '13, who moved to Mumbai from Shanghai six months ago.

We made our way to the domestic airport, had an uneventful flight to Jaipur, and were met by students and teachers from Mayo. The drive took three hours and we passed and were passed by many highly decorated long distance trucks, camels pulling carts, daredevil motorcycle and APE (those three wheeled Italian truck/scooters) and people on bicycles.

Upon arrival, we registered and then were whisked off in separate directions for dinner - not to alarm, but the last I saw of our students they were with a group of Mayo College students headed to eat. We'll see them at Yoga tomorrow morning at 6 (?) and then for the opening ceremony at 8.

Even in the dark, the Mayo campus is impressive, and expansive. More importantly, everyone we have met here has been incredibly kind and hospitable!