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at some point later today (which will be tonight in india - ten and a half hours ahead, to be precise - and yes, that "and a half" is pretty strange), zoë and max will be on an overnight train that will take them from chennai to kochi. they'll be in kochi for two days before they depart for the farm where they'll be working (barring any unforseen change of plan) for six weeks. an email yesterday reported that they'd made it to chennai and eaten some delicious hot curries and were staying in a cheap and clean hotel. if you take our current windchill into consideration, it is nearly one hundred degrees hotter where they are than where i am. there you have it, my mind-blowing fact of the day.