Week on the Beach and Back to Mussoorie

I am back in Mussoorie after a trip back to Minnesota and then a week on the beach in Goa. Megan and I decided to go back home for Christmas and had a good time with friends and family. We spent the last week of our winter vacation on the beaches of northern Goa – it was a great way to get over jet lag! We actually meant to stay at the same hotel where we were last winter, but we accidentally stayed at another hotel of the same chain. We were very confused when our taxi from the airport took us to the Alor Hotel, but neither of us recognized it! We tried to switch to the other hotel in Calanguente, but it was all booked up. Luckily we were only 3 kilometers away from Calanguete beach – which is where we wanted to be. We spent one week in Goa and then flew back to Delhi and caught a taxi to Mussoorie. Normally we would take the train from Delhi to Dehra Dun, but we were carrying a lot of instruments for the school and it would have been too much of a hassle to deal with all of our luggage on the train.

We arrived back in Mussoorie on Saturday evening and spent a lazy Sunday at Char dukan with some friends. Today was the first official day of work; we have one whole week of meetings – mostly dealing with “the Strategic Master Plan” and the switch to the two school model that will happen next year. I have decided to come back to Minnesota after my contract is up at the end of June, so these topics don’t interest me as much as they would if I were returning next year… The student will begin to arrive over the weekend and then school begins next week. I will be happy to have the kids here; it’s always a little less lively without the students running around campus.