Saturday May 15 Day 74

Saturday May 15 Day 74

Last evening I headed down the hill, the rain had moved out, and met the young lady who was appearing in “The Importance of Being Ernest”. The show has been replaced with a one act comedy in which the young lady has the leading role. Evidently there were problems with the ordinal production. The male lead had not learned any of his lines, the director had fallen and broken her hip and the replacement director could not handle the job. The principal of Woodstock took on the task of directing the one act. To fill out the program one of the Indian schools was to present a one act play in English. The only English they know is “school” English as they do not speak the language on a regular basis except in English class. I shall go down the hill tonight in support of the young lady.

This morning I went down the hill and taped a trail that must be taped in the morning because the sun hits the trail only in the morning. Today is also the Woodstock Mela (fair). There are 2 american college girls staying here for 2 nights and I escorted them down the hill to the start of the “Eyebrow Trail” with additional instructions as to how to get to Woodstock from the end of the trail. They wanted to attend the Mela. As always, it takes longer to get anywhere when walking in the mountains and the girls and I got started 45 minutes late. I ended taping and had less than an hour to get back to the top of the hill for lunch. I made it in 55 minutes totally beat. I sure could have used the 45 “lost” minutes to walk to Mullingar and get a taxi up the hill. It is a 30 minutes walk to Mullingar but there is always the risk that the taxi will not be available. I couldn’t risk hoping there would be a taxi without the time cushion provided by the “lost” 45 minutes. I will never be a nice guy again, until provided with the opportunity.