carrom board

Jane left today for a long weekend in Wellington, and we don’t have any guests for the weekend so we’ll be working on ‘Arvind Projects’ for a few days.

One of the projects we’ll be working on is finding me a car. I wasn’t originally planning on getting a car, but I was also thinking I’d be spending a lot of time outside New Zealand, just working here to earn money to travel to other places. Then I discovered I loved New Zealand, and have been having a great time WWOOFing, which is much easier with a car since many hosts live pretty far out. Also, it’s nice to be able to stop places where buses don’t stop, and not to be held to a schedule.

I didn’t get around to getting the local weekly trade paper today, but hopefully the cars don’t move too fast!

We all played carrom board tonight, which I’m told is sort of an Indian version of pool. There’s a square board dusted with talcum powder or something similar, lots of little discs, and a ‘cue disc’ which you flick at your pieces from a line on your side of the board. We were all pretty bad at it – Arvind wasn’t around, but apparently he’s really good. My team won, but I had really sore fingertips from playing!