8th May

Sunday is my day off. I wasn’t sure whether it was the cleaning lady’s day off so I got up the usual time. (Wouldn’t want to embarrass the poor woman.) I spent most of the day reading and not thinking too much. I tried to watch the cricket on the internet but the connection wasn’t that great. Later in the evening when I was thinking I should get some sleep, I had a call from Ashutosh. Some men were coming around to replace the air conditioning unit. Right, OK. They arrived about three quarters of an hour later and started asking me all sorts of questions in Hindi that I had no idea what they were saying. That was alright though cause they couldn’t understand me either. I managed to figure out that they were most perplexed that the ac wasn’t there. I thought it was. There it is hanging in the wall. They tried to indicate the new ac. I had no idea where the new ac was. Then one of them had a moment of brilliance. Let’s have a look outside. Just outside my door there is another door that leads to the roof. Sure enough, there it was. Some other party must have put it there during the day sometime.

After about an hour of bashing and smashing and a general amount of noise, the ‘new’ ac unit was in. They sealed around the outside of the unit with a plastercine substance of some kind. (Wasn’t the tidiest of jobs) This one was a lot quieter and seemed to work much better. I had much more control over what temperature I wanted.