cool week-end

I don't want to complain (especially to those who have -4° in France...) but it is really cold today in Chennai and weather is worse and worse.
Yesterday, it was already grey, but I had a nice course with Lavanya, working on tillana, new korvei, quiet long, using all talas sankernam, misra, kandam, tisra, chatusram, and a tricky tirmanam playing with all these rythmes, 2 symetric and 1 in front). I spent the afternoon, working on my items, reading and even sleeping a little bit. Then we made cooking with Murielle. She did a nice "pistou" with fresh basil leaves, garlic and cashews, for pasta, then I helped her to pill off Ooty carots (that are long, pink and sweeter), then I made again a banana apple crumble this time with raisins and pistachio nuts. Then Sacha came for a rehearsal with Murielle (they will perform a part of a tillana on December, 27. Sacha came with her 2 children Nicolas, 10 and Gabrielle, 6 who quietly watch japanese Miyazaki animation "Pony sur la falaise" in French (they speak Russian, French, English and "kumjum kumjum" Tamil). We all had dinner together, it was a nice evening.