November 29, 2008 – 5:33 pm
But at the same time, things are just beginning. It was confirmed last night that two school parents were killed in the attacks downtown. They have three children in our school, one in Breck’s grade and another whom I’ve taught for both years that we’ve been here. We have an all-staff meeting tomorrow to discuss [...]
November 28, 2008 – 5:15 pm
Today is the day that we are celebrating Thanksgiving in Mumbai. Before the events of the last two days, our schedule was such that the kids had a half day on Thursday and we were all off on Friday. Obviously many plans for the holiday have been scrapped (such as the full-blown Thanksgiving dinner - [...]
November 27, 2008 – 6:00 pm
We’ve holed up today - among the residents of the apartments, there have been kid play sessions, board game marathons, movie screenings, bread baking-and-tasting exchanges, and swimming in the little pool outside. The news has been depressingly non-ending: over a hundred dead, with twice that number injured and an unknown number still being held.
As I [...]
November 27, 2008 – 3:11 am
Good morning - it is early here, and we just got the proverbial 3am call from one of the school principals about today’s attacks in Mumbai. We are fine, the events took place downtown - far away from us. School is cancelled tomorrow (today); at this point all we know is what we can read [...]
