I had my first Hindi class last night. The start was delayed by a week because the teacher was ill. It was really interesting. It is at the American Embassy School and I went in a different entrance this time and was greeted by a lovely fountain; it is such a different world on that campus. Mostly we learned the basics, I am, you are, etc., and some of the letters of the alphabet. Apparently spelling is completely phonetic here so (this is an exact quote) "there are no spelling bees in Hindi". At the time I thought this was very funny, as I'm writing it I think it might have just been funny to me; but all I know is that this completely explains all of the typos I see here. She mentioned specifically in English the word gorgeous and how the two 'g's are pronounced totally differently. Clearly she thinks English spelling is a tad bit silly.
I learned a little; and my driver seemed really happy when I answered him with "accha" which means yes/good/okay when he asked me a question so I'm already making progress.
After the class, when I left the oasis that is the AES campus I was brought right back to reality when I saw a big puddle on the side of the road and 6 pigs running over to get a drink. 2 big pigs (the parents I guess) and 4 piglets. The clear sign that I'm well adjusted to being here is that I didn't think that was weird; I just thought "how cute, some piggies".
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