I woke up at 5 am and called Abdullah. He was up and getting ready too. I got ready, and he picked up a friend of his then me. By about 5:30am, we were just past Mehran University, off a dirt road with some rocky hills. As fate would have it, the direction the sun was rising from was where all the buildings we had left behind stood.My other still camera had been stolen, which had some nice time lapse features which I had planned to use for the sunrise. The cheaper, used replacement I had picked up also turned out to have a time lapse option. I had gone through all the buttons and settings of the camera the day before to prepare. I set it up just behind a hill to capture the sunrise. I ended up moving it 3 times as we figured out the exact location of the sun.Meanwhile, I took my other camera and shot footage of rocks, shrubs, and other details. This is all for one of the scenes in “Risalo”. As I did all of this, my two friends were chatting, giving suggestions where they could help and watching curiously. I explained a bit if what I was trying to do as I fiddled around, up and down hills. Off in the distance we were being serenaded by relentlessly barking dogs from small tent settlements. They were warning us to stay away from the livestock under their protection. We kept an eye on them too, because we really did not want them to visit.The sun began to rise around 6am. I shot lots of bits of footage based on what I had storyboarded and also based on what was in front of me. Afterwards, we dropped off Abdullah’s friend, and my gear. Then we head to Javaid Solangi’s place for breakfast. I got to meet Javaid’s father, but Javaid, famous for his ability to sleep through anything was not able to wake up. That was fine, Abdullah and I were tired too. We enjoyed some breakfast and tea, before he dropped me back at the hostel.I tried to sleep, but could not. Instead, I just lay down to rest and fiddled a bit with the footage I had shot before and what I had shot that day. I spent the day, relaxing in the heat, working on bits, resting and biding time.I spent the day finishing a few more puppet designs. It took a lot of drawing, reference gathering and redrawing, but I needed to finish these designs to send off to Rajesh in Udaipur to get made. He had sent me some photos of puppets he had, amongst which I could get a few background characters I needed, but the main characters needed to be custom made to my designs.That night, as every saturday night, the amazing hostel cooks were off. These guys work very hard, and I look forward to each meal thanks to them. I called in an order to a little fast food place, then studied a book I had picked up on various Sindhi musical instruments. The food arrived, and I ate my zinger (the word for all chicken burgers here it seems) with fries and a little can of mirinda (orange soda).