The Tiffin Man Can

I debated calling this post Anna and the King after the movie, but while there is now an Anna in my life, there is unfortunately no King.

Anna is the new volunteer, a thirty-year-old Chilean/American. She’s a freelance dance teacher who specializes in freestyle and modern dance. She’s working with FAS on the physical education part of the curriculum, and will be doing some teaching in City Montessori School.

We’ve moved back into the office and this time around things have been set up with a more independent eating arrangement. Where as before we were going to Sohayl’s house for lunch and dinner we now get our meals from the Tiffin man. Tiffin is one of those words that you don’t hear in Canada, at least I never have, but it’s actually an English word. Being in India, a country that took its English from the real English, and which still has the literality and precision of an English-As-A-Second-Language speaker, one learns a lot of new things about the English language.

But I digress. The Tiffin man brings us our lunch and dinners now. It’s sort of like delivery – Indian style. Instead of pizza or Chinese food we get rice, a vegetable topping, a sauce, bread, and some sliced onions and cucumbers.