Mathru School for the Differently-Abled
Tuesday 1/28/14
Instead of getting on a plane tomorrow for Singapore and then Bangalore, Linda will be busy recovering from an emergency appendectomy. Andy called me this morning with the news, and now I'm busy sending Linda my best healing thoughts, and working on Plans B, C and D.
The deafblindness makes it difficult for me to travel alone -- the deafness is more of an obstacle than the blindness -- so I have to change my plans for the rest of my adventure.
If I can get someone to go to Sri Lanka with me, I can still do that trip Feb, 6-10, and won't have to cancel my Sri Lankan Airlines flight or Kingsbury Hotel reservation.
And if I can get to Manila straight from Bangalore without any overnight layovers, I might still be able to make that trip too and visit my friend Prandy Yulo there. If getting to Manila on my own works, I could come home as originally planned on Feb. 19 (fly Manila-Hong Kong-San Francisco). If it doesn't, I guess I'll fly straight home from Bangalore.
Andy's not crazy about me flying straight to San Francisco from Bangalore, because it will be a very long flight -- he thinks 30 hours or more including layovers and changing planes -- but if that is what I have to do, so be it. The communication issues for me in a foreign city are just too overwhelming.
Andy's checking with our travel agent and the airlines for me to find out what options I have, we'll see how the plan changes work for Prandy, and we'll see if the Sri Lanka trip is still a go. One way or another it will all work out.
In the meatime, life goes on. I'm still counting down the hours to my Goldfinch Hotel respite and visit with Mayu. Now that Andy's not going to be able to send me some audiobooks, AA batteries and other items with Linda, maybe Mayu can help me find an audiobook store here, if there is such a place.
Apart from my preoccupation with plan changes, I spent the day polishing up my mosaics and gluing my business card to the backs of them. I won't be getting any hanging hardware from Andy via Linda, either, so I told Divya I'll have to leave it up to her to arrange for Harish or someone to get them ready to hang.
And unsurprisingly, Harish did not bring the plywood bases for the murals today. He did bring me sandpaper and black paint, though, so we're making progress. If the boards come tomorrow I should still be able to get the murals put together by Thursdayafternoon, when I'm off to the Goldfinch Hotel.
Less than 48 hours away!
Tuesday 1/28/14
Instead of getting on a plane tomorrow for Singapore and then Bangalore, Linda will be busy recovering from an emergency appendectomy. Andy called me this morning with the news, and now I'm busy sending Linda my best healing thoughts, and working on Plans B, C and D.
The deafblindness makes it difficult for me to travel alone -- the deafness is more of an obstacle than the blindness -- so I have to change my plans for the rest of my adventure.
If I can get someone to go to Sri Lanka with me, I can still do that trip Feb, 6-10, and won't have to cancel my Sri Lankan Airlines flight or Kingsbury Hotel reservation.
And if I can get to Manila straight from Bangalore without any overnight layovers, I might still be able to make that trip too and visit my friend Prandy Yulo there. If getting to Manila on my own works, I could come home as originally planned on Feb. 19 (fly Manila-Hong Kong-San Francisco). If it doesn't, I guess I'll fly straight home from Bangalore.
Andy's not crazy about me flying straight to San Francisco from Bangalore, because it will be a very long flight -- he thinks 30 hours or more including layovers and changing planes -- but if that is what I have to do, so be it. The communication issues for me in a foreign city are just too overwhelming.
Andy's checking with our travel agent and the airlines for me to find out what options I have, we'll see how the plan changes work for Prandy, and we'll see if the Sri Lanka trip is still a go. One way or another it will all work out.
In the meatime, life goes on. I'm still counting down the hours to my Goldfinch Hotel respite and visit with Mayu. Now that Andy's not going to be able to send me some audiobooks, AA batteries and other items with Linda, maybe Mayu can help me find an audiobook store here, if there is such a place.
Apart from my preoccupation with plan changes, I spent the day polishing up my mosaics and gluing my business card to the backs of them. I won't be getting any hanging hardware from Andy via Linda, either, so I told Divya I'll have to leave it up to her to arrange for Harish or someone to get them ready to hang.
And unsurprisingly, Harish did not bring the plywood bases for the murals today. He did bring me sandpaper and black paint, though, so we're making progress. If the boards come tomorrow I should still be able to get the murals put together by Thursdayafternoon, when I'm off to the Goldfinch Hotel.
Less than 48 hours away!
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