Prabhupāda: Where is the location?
Gurudāsa: It's on what's called Gangadwip. But that's new place. It's an island that just appeared this year, splitting the Ganges in two. You know, Jushi is here, and Gangadwip is here. And the place where we were last year is here. We were here last year, Gangadwip is here, and Jushi is here. And... But I've been sending out and going out on saṅkīrtana, so that will make up for our location. It's not so bad, but I want to paint a true picture. It's not so good, nor is it so bad. And there's thirteen tents. We have three bigas of land, sand. And we've made a tin enclosure all the way around. And we had a Swiss cottage tent for yourself. Swiss cottage means a room about this large from the end of the almirah to the wall and about this wide. And then a middle room about from here to the wall, and then another small room. But I was not satisfied with that, so I took that tent down, and when I left a day and a half ago I told Bhāgavata dāsa and Jagat-guru Mahārāja, who are there, to erect a straw house for you, bigger. So they are, I hope, doing that. The difficulty was that we had no money, and therefore I've come and am going back. I had a few hundred dollars in traveler's checks which I cashed and gave it to them to keep going.
Prabhupāda: Straw house is not good.
Gurudāsa: No? What would you like? Because a straw house retains the heat during the day.
Prabhupāda: That's all right, but if there is fire it will be...
Gurudāsa: I see. We made a separate latrine for you and separate shower, etc. That is all enclosed. So what would you like? A big tent?
Prabhupāda: I do not know, but a straw house... Is there any chance of setting, getting fire?
Gurudāsa: Well, your kitchen is apart, in tin. So that... The kitchen would be safe. Otherwise why would there be any fire? The outside is also tin. There would only be your house. Now, I can make a tin house if you want, but...
Prabhupāda: No, tin house will be...
Gurudāsa: Not so good. Straw is the best.
Prabhupāda: That is best, but fire protection-wise...
Gurudāsa: Well, one thing I was thinking we can put shamiyanas on the outside of it or the inside. I looked at the other camps, and most of the big ācāryas, etc., they have straw houses.
Prabhupāda: Straw.
Gurudāsa: Therefore I thought if they have, then you should have.
Prabhupāda: That's all right. That's all right. But one gentleman wants to give us a house.
Gurudāsa: Kapoor?
Prabhupāda: Ha, ha. Have you seen that?
Gurudāsa: No. Not yet. I've been too busy. To get to any place you have to walk. But the first thing I did, I got a...
Prabhupāda: Why to walk?
Gurudāsa: Well, I hired a autoscooter for the day, but there's so many things to do that since you had a place to live, I put that..., that I'm going to see it, but I didn't do it immediately. I went to see Munshi's camp though. Now, that is three miles away. That I walked to. It took one and a half hours to go.
Prabhupāda: One and a half hours!
Gurudāsa: From our camp. And one and a half hours back. They kept on saying, "Sida, sida! Agi, agi!" And finally I got there. And their camp is not nicer than ours. It would mean a saving of approximately...
Prabhupāda: At the cost of inconvenience.
Gurudāsa: But it wouldn't even save that much money, because our tents... When I got there, the one thing that was up, were our tents.