Margaret and Celia are fine

Hello all. Before she left, Margaret gave me powers, awesome powers, fearsome powers, over her blog. Basically I can post to it. :-)

I know she has been quiet for a while, but I have heard from her twice very recently: once yesterday via a nice fellow-Fulbrighter in Kolkata who dined with her, and once via a short email that arrived this morning.

Basically, they are fine and are doing well, but the technologies are not working as well as one might hope. After leaving the palace at Udaipur, Internet access has been rare, and when present usually doesn't work with Mac. :-( She has tried the communication stalls which litter the towns to call and/or FAX, but again they have been flakey. I *do* have emergency numbers to call if anything urgent should come up, but otherwise we'll just have to be patient.

Anyway, she is FINALY in Shantiniketan where the real fun will begin. Hopefully she will get mobile phone capabilities shortly and figure out the whole Internet thing.

Steve