Hate is a strong word. But, in this case, i think it's use is fair.

I hate Ants. I really do.

This morning, for the 2nd time in 4 days, the Ants in my room conspired against me to ruin my breakfast. Yesterday evening i'd gone once again to Satish's wonderful bakery in Mundgod to buy a packet of these 6 little cakes for 18 rupees (that's about 25 pence, prime value if you're asking me) and then proceeded to walk back to my hostel and put them in my room on my desk. I slept safe in the knowledge that Satish had wrapped them in a seal tight enough to keep those prying ants at bay.

But no, Satish failed. He left an opening, and anyone who knows anything about prying ants will tell you. Any opening, no matter how small or seemingly insignificant shall be exploited. And so it was, i woke up and had to fight a battle at an hour far too young for fighting battles in my opinion. They was shaking and scraping and screaming involved. But the ants eventually left alone my cakes, leaving my to enjoy them on my own. Needless to say, the feeling was hollow for they'd been soiled by the ants, molesting my breakfast of all it's goodness. I will have to be smarter next time for sure and find some way of beating this army mischievous pillagers.


On a lighter note, i've got a job. 2 classes a day teaching drop out kids with fellow volunteer Sarah "Whitey" Whitehouse.
After the Manvi dream died and the basketball well dried up ever so quickly, i know finally have something to do for a sustained period of time. So i'm teaching these rogues for about 5 weeks till we go back to Manvi.
It's better than just sitting around doing nothing but soaking in my Indian surroundings, i was getting a little tired of that.

Other news which is notable, i suppose, is the departure of Alice Bourgoin. Alice Bourgoin is a 25 year old teacher from Wimbledon College who was upset that i hadn't given her a mention on my blog. The most interesting information to be derived from that is that she is 25 years old. Yes, that's a whole 7 years older than me. How embarrassing Alice, how embarrassing.

Unfortunately, i can't think of anything else to mention in this post. Hopefully my next one will contain things more interesting.

Thanks for reading.
Ed x