Random Observations

Yet another picture like the other ones, but its very pretty. Since I got my camera fixed I have an unfortunate grey dot in the corner of all my pictures. : (

Here is the only place that when talking to people and saying I'm here for ten months respond with, 'thats it?'

In talking with other westerners here, I've gotten a few of my own observations confirmed. Not to totally bash the education system but there is some general agreement about the difference in the quality of work and teaching. Though I suppose in India, as everything is done by a test (like getting a job), memorization and regurgitation is a useful skill. 

Another thing that I did not anticipate, and perhaps was the cause of most of my hardship last semester until I realized it, is that your efficiency while in India goes down by about fifty percent. The amount of errands you can run, homework you can do, all of it. Coming from western societies, we have expectations for ourselves of all the things we set out to accomplish in a day. Yet day after day, week after week, I was still failing to get the most basic tasks done. You just have to accept that you can't do so much in a day, you can't be so efficient, and then it gets easier.