Wonderful Tuesday so far...

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Good afternoon from this side of the globe . It is sunny and warm out but the temperature is not too high to make you sweat. We have started using AC in the night since the last week. And I assume that we might have to use it for a week or two more. It starts raining here from April end and then it goes on raining till Christmas . So, the use of AC is not much here. We woke up very early today @4AM and by 4:30 we got ready and left the house. We drove to the famous botanical garden in the city. It took us just 12 minutes to reach there as there was no traffic. We enjoyed our walk there for almost 90 minutes. It was so good to walk amidst the nature, greenery, chirping of birds and the huge lake there with so many ducks is the main attraction . After 90 minutes, we came out, enjoyed the tender coconut water from the street vendor and walked down the hundred years old and very famous restaurant...Mavalli Tiffin Room( MTR). We enjoyed a delicious traditional South Indian breakfast there with their famous coffee. The place is amazing and is always overcrowded. But we managed to get a table without much wait. We were back home by 8:30..My niece got ready and left for college. My husband left a little late around 12 and I could pack some quick rice dish for him. Anyway, no one would have a good appetite for lunch after such heavy breakfast. I went for my Spoken Kannada class. This was the fourth class ( we have it twice a week) and I found that I have picked up and improved a lot. . I have been in Karnataka for more than a decade and picked up the language a bit through exposure. But then it was not grammatical correct all the time. I just managed. Since English is prevalent here, I could manage with fitting in English when I couldn't say the same thing in Kannada. I enjoy learning languages and so I thought that I would join this spoken kannada classes. There is one batch in evening too. That would be convenient for me once I am back to work in June. There are few old ladies in our apartment who are retired and have good command on languages. They are multilingual and can speak few Indian languages along with fluent English. They take these batches of spoken languages to keep themselves busy. They do it like a community service and have no charges. They just want that Indian languages thrive in coming generations and don't die because of too much of influence of English. They are doing some really good service . The community hall has few batches going on each day from morning to evening. These ladies take turns to run them. As soon as this new batch started, I joined it as summer vacation is the best time to learn something new. It's fun and I met more neighbours from the apartment and made some new friends Now here I am to myLot for a while. Hope you all have a good time in your myLot corner Are you learning something new or planning to learn soon??