Doctor daughter has just phoned to say she has a post in Scotland. An 8 year paediatrics post, 3 years at Dundee and 5 at Edinburgh. We are all ecstatic, she is even allowed to accept it... but... Which means that if one she ranked higher comes up, she will be offered it and can change to that.
She applied for and really wanted a paediatrics consultancy training post and preferably in Edinburgh, she's been at Sick Children's for the last 4 months and has really enjoyed it, so this is just the answer to prayers.
Alleluia!
We have had a good day too, school was quieter than yesterday, Santosh and Buneswari were in first thing working with Maggie and I and Joel the physio. He has decided that having completed his 'bond' 2 year period, he wants to continue working in the school, he has really enjoyed working alongside me and wants to do more work with the early years children, he's a really good physio and very good with both children and parents and also has good background knowledge which he happily shares with the teachers when my Tamil and pigeon English give up (after about 3 words!) I had a short time with Subbaiah before lunch, then only half a session with Mariam as we had to meet with the Bishop who is being really supportive of what I am doing.
When we left the Bishop, we hit the road to Kanya Kumari, the Southern tip of India in time to catch a glorious sunset, paddle in the Tri-Sea (Arabian Sea, Bay of Bengal and Indian Ocean), gather some shells in the Arabian sea shore then have dinner and back here for around 10.00pm in time for the call giving Doctor daughter's news.
Glorious sunset as you can see. The first picture is of people bathing in the sea which is a holy place for Hindus. As you can see, they had a lot of fun and bathe fully dressed! We almost did too, the waves come in a circular motion at times so the water was coming down from the shore. As you can see from some of the pics, the water was wild and beautiful. We are looking due west (obviously as the sun is going down Sally!) across the Arabian Sea with nothing between us and Africa.
We're off to Chennai tomorrow night for the weekend, staying with Carrie's brother. Sleeper overnight in 2nd class AC. Only two levels of bunks not 3 thank goodness, climbing the ladders on a moving train in the dark is fairly hairy! I don't have Easter holidays as school closes on the 18th April, but I have permission to take a day off! We get back 8.30am Monday morning so straight to school.
