January 15th was a Solar Eclipse in southern India. Because of the harmfulness of the Eclipse, the kids were again out of school. The people here are very superstitious. The believe that if you go outside on a Solar Eclipse day that you can be harmed. You may be killed, or something very bad will happen to you. Maddie came home from school and told me that we needed to keep our curtains closed so that the bad sun rays don't melt us. I assured her that nothing would happen to us if we went outside. Our driver told me that he could not be out between 11:00 and 4:00 because that is when the eclipse was happening. Luckily Alan leaves for work at 8. He also told us that you can't eat anything on an Eclipse day because the food might have been poisoned by the bad rays. The kids and I had a fun day that day anyway and were able to see the eclipse through putting a hole in a piece of paper and watching the shadow move across the ground. Our maid was also amazed by this and got on the phone to call someone and tell them to do this. Apparently there are a few Eclipses a year here, but not all of them are full eclipses like this one. We might have to buy some solar eclipse glasses for the next one.
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