Today was our last day visiting the Abacus Montessori School.. thank goodness it was only a two hour visit. We observed kolum drawings in honor of the Pongal Festival. (For those of you who are not familiar w/ kolum, it is a design located outside of homes or doors. The symbol changes every day and is simply created using white and colored rice flour. If the kolum is missing from outside the door, neighbors know there has been a death in the family.) After celebrating the Pongal Festival with the students, we left the school and returned to Niketana.. we had a bit of down time, had a wonderful lunch, and then headed to the Chennai Mall.. primarily for the air conditioning :) Vidya took our class to an AWESOME bangle shop, I got some new Kurtis (the Indian shirts we wear) and then we headed to the Bollywood movie at 3:50pm. After one intermission, and three hours later, we left the theatre... all singing and dancing--trying to replicate and memorize the lines and moves we learned from the movie :)
Vidya's sister Brinda and their 85 year old mother met us for dinner at a very nice restaurant. I am pretty sure the servers had to roll us out... it literally felt like the food kept coming... and coming.. and just when I thought we were done, BAM, more food.
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