Just a quick note to let you know that we are safe and sound at the Mumbai Cricket Association complex - quite a stark contrast to some of the neighborhoods we drove through to get here - families sleeping on the street, informal housing, pungent smoke, and lots orf eeriu\y lighting from flourescent tubes hung off of tree branches and in spaces in between tin-sided, single room dwelllings.
We were met at the airport by Shailesh and Renu Raina, parents of Rahul '10, and they had arranged cars to bring us here to the hotel. Tomorrow we will meet their friend Kennan for breakfast - he is a member of this club, and will have breakfast with us here and show us around - perhaps there will be some cricket!
We will then go to lunch at the Raina's house, and then from there to the airport.
We had a lovely send-off from Hotchkiss - some forty or fifty students came to say goodbye, and Calliope (the girls acapella group) sang a beautiful song - a great way to leave the school. We were some of the last people to get on the very full plane, even though we were there almost two hours ahead of schedule, but no problems. We were all seated next to at least one other member of our group, and had some great conversations with our non-Hotchkiss neighbors.
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