Not much exciting to report the last couple days unless you want to know about Delhi Belly. We're settling into working routines. We wake up early and Ilene heads to the gym while I get coffee at the stall across the street and work in our room for a couple hours. After Ilene gets back and her tutor shows up, I head to the gym and get lunch at a bun bo hue stall and kill some more time reading in the park. We do our laundry in the sink and work the rest of the afternoon in our room trying to ignore the various construction noises in and around the building. We made ourselves a little pantry out of some cheap plastic shelves from the supermarket down the street and stock up fruit and American-brand cookies for snacks. When the stalls open up at Cho Ben Than at 6 p.m. we walk down there for dinner and stroll the streets for awhile.Here are some exterior shots of our neighborhood--our building, the street, which is relatively quiet, and the view out our window in the back of the building. There are a few apartment buildings back there and in one of them a woman works on her painting each morning and then puts it on the balcony to dry while she lights some incense and prays.
--Robert
