Kolkata Day 3

Cheers everybody!
I hope you all are doing well!! So today I am writing you about what Emily and I did today. We got up, I keep getting up super early for some reason (maybe cuz I feel aleep before Jurassic Park 3 even started last night at nine) and so I took a shower. The shower is just the shower head pointing toward the middle of the bathroom so everything in there gets wet. I can't escape being soaked, be it with sweat or the shower or in today's case: a monsoon. Today after our breakfast of sugar toast and watching Friends on tv, we set out for school. We walked over to the train station and pushed our way onto one of the crowded trains. We have to ride in the main cars (which is mostly men) cuz we have our Japanese boys with us and the Italian guy. There are all women cars which look so nice cuz they are never crowded. 6 stops later we hop off the train and we are at the village. Today I helped a little girl who refused to do more than like 4 math problems. I have no patience for this so I say "YES NOW" and point and she says "NO FINISH" and we go back and forth but I realized that if I leave her and pay attention to someone else, she gets my attention and shows me that she is working, so I help her again. Ah, children. I am also helping my precious Tanu, who Emily keeps calling the little gay boy because of what we thought SHE was. I am trying to not think of her like that cuz she is my little homie. So today she was doing easy addition ya know 2+4 and so on and whenever she got a set right she put both hands up expecting a double high-five!! SHE IS SO CUTE!! Such good bonding when you know you just taught someone something new for the first time and they get excited. Oh, I could cry! Anyways while at school we started hearing thunder, loud loud thunder and the next thing you know it is a downpour. And it has been that way since.....so for 7 hours. We took the train home and by this time we are soaked to the bone. We get served really good spicy noodles for lunch and then Emily and I set out to see some sites. We figured, hey we are from Seattle we can handle this rain. Well it was cool at first but now we are miserable especially because we are in sandals and the puddles have Lord knows what mixed in them.
We were in search of a place we found in our India book called the Indian Coffee House where it said you can just sit and have coffee and meet people and it is right in the college district so it sounded great. We found it and it was so crowded and kinda pricey for coffee here so we left but it was cool to see. We searched aimlessly for an ATM because Emily ran out of rupees and mine were getting low from paying for both of us. We finally found one, right by our hotel after wandering forever. I love that.
Now we bought some "sweets" from a bakery and we are gonna go back to the hotel and get dry and watch tv. I say "sweets" in quotes because I think they might have spiciness in them which would be and Indian sweet but we will have to wait and see.
I love you Mommy! And I love and miss everyone else.
~until tomorrow maybe, Michelle