Do Lucknow

I bought a bike today and rode it here, arriving a little shaky. I didn’t go faster than 7 mph but I’ve never had to be so watchful, not even on a motorcycle going 70.  It was my birthday present to myself. A brand new Avon, made in Ludhiana, India.  And now I am craving a normal cup of coffee, which is apparently harder to find in Lucknow than a bicycle. 

My schedule goes something like this: wake up at 7:15, take a cold shower and lie back in bed to read until about 8:20, walk (now bike) to AIIS, about 1km away, sit in 1 hour classes from 9 to 1 with one very sweet tea break, have lunch all together cooked by Geeta the cook, then have one more class from 2 to 3.  Once a week there is a Persian class, and once a week an Arabic roots class.  The class size is from one to three.  Today we had oral presentations, and I gave mine on this book Locust: the devastating rise and mysterious dissapearance of the insect that shaped the American frontier.  I just finished it and it is so so amazingly good.  I could write a lot more about it, but I’d be tempted to give away the end, and instead I just want to reccomend it highly.  It’s the best book I’ve read in years. 

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