On Tuesday (21st) night the Rev came round with the news that a Rev JP is coming to stay with us on the 27th for ten days. He's coming with USPG and so M. wrote to the Bishop about him. He should know about us - we hope! The Rev also said that the Bishop wanted me to phone him - he'd just got a letter I wrote before term started about getting a job. Apparently he thought I wanted to leave Ramnad! I think the Rev was quite upset - like I didn't trust him (I don't). But now the situation's different. I can't leave, mainly because of our friends here, but the music is just taking off as well. the mornings are still free, but I've written to the Bishop saying that it's really alright if he doesn't find me anything to do because I can occupy my time now. I've got a few ideas. Hopefully the Rev, who is seeing him today, will explain this as I did to him on Tuesday.

I've got my first recording contract - one of the Teachers, Miss Shanti - has asked me to record all my songs for her. she sent a tape over so I'll do that this afternoon. We're going to do an English folk evening at St Andrews, now I've got lots of folky music. Hopefully we can get all the other girls out of study so they can enjoy it as well.

C.'s coming to terms with the teaching - Eighth are wonderful, Seventh are little gits and Ninth just want to play games all the time. Seventh Standard girls don't say anything, but they work really hard and the boys talk all the time all at once, ignore C. and do no work. So C.'s going to set them lots of comprehension to do! When he tried to do some work with Ninth Standard boys they said that the lesson was boring and wanted to play games instead. He still hasn't taught the girls because their teacher keeps turning up and taking lessons. I think that he'd find them much easier and nicer to work with. But it's Eighth Standard who really appreciate C.'s teaching and want to learn. This is what he's told me and we've discussed various possibilities for the vast difference in behaviour. Maybe Seventh are too young, Ninth are too teenaged and Eighth are just right. Girls and boys talk to each other in Eighth Standard!

We went to Juliet's house on Tuesday night and her husband bought me a bottle of beer! He was very careful about it, lowered his voice and whispered, Do you drink... beer? ...Rum? ... It was so funny! But he said that he has to keep it really quiet when he has a drink because the neighbours would stop talking to him! He also doesn't tell the children or even Juliet sometimes! We were put in a really awkward position when he went, because Juliet came and asked if he'd said anything about where he was going. We didn't know what to say, he'd been so secretive about it. So we changed the subject and he came back. Juliet didn't mind, as long as we don't tell anyone. I hadn't had a drink for nearly thirteen weeks and it went down very well!¹