Arrival in India

I arrived in India a week ago, after a very long journey. One 12 hour plane ride to Seoul
(4 movies!), some awesome soft tofu kimchi soup, a 6 hour plane flight
to Delhi, several hours to rest in a chair at the airport, a long
crazy taxi ride at 4am through Delhi to the train station, a 6 hour
train ride up into the foothills, a 3 hour car ride over some very
curvy and often not paved roads, and a 20 minute walk on a dirt
path.... and I arrived. whew.
It is completely and wonderfully gorgeous here. The complex we're
staying at has 10 little bungalow's nestled on the side of a hill
looking north towards the Himalayas. All of the hills around us are
terraced or have pine forests on them. There is a dining hall area
where we are fed three delicious meals a day and afternoon tea. The
area around the bungalows is landscaped with beautiful flowers-
cosmos, dahlias, marigolds- and herbs. There are cows wandering about
with bells around their necks and goats and chickens as well. They
grow all the food we eat here. The students and Kacy walk and catch a
jeep every morning into the nearest village to hold their classes at
the NGO that this program is partnered with. I will probably be doing
some work with them as well, at some point, but for the last week the students have been on a trek further up the Himalayas to an ashram and a glacier. I was supposed to go with them, but one of the students got sick (pneumonia) and another forgot his passport, so Kacy and I had to bring them back to explore the vagaries of the Indian health care system.
The other students came back yesterday, dirty and exhausted. One of them has injured her knee pretty badly and we may have to take her all the way into Delhi to get an MRI.
Nothing's ever easy here, but it sure is beautiful in our little corner of India.
Internet access is slow, but we just got new modems and are finally able to get Kacy's computer online, so I should have more regular contact and will try to load photos and audio asap.
I can read emails though, so let me know how things have been!