Here's a map of all of the states of India I'll have visited by the time I leave. There might be one more I haven't put on there because I'm not sure if we'll be stopping briefly while we're traveling through or not.


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Well, its my last day in Hyderabad. I might be leaving this city behind and never seeing it again. It's weird to think about. Other people have said that I'll be back. The workers at the center said we have to come back again someday. Aparna wrote on my final journal that she thinks I'll definitely be stopping by again. Plus, at the mosque we ( Read more... )

Okay, here's the links I promised to the pictures of the boys.
These are just a regular day at the center.
These are from the last day.

Tonight is our last night with Kirthi and Lena. They both leave early tomorrow morning. I can't believe the group is breaking up when there's still 11 days left for the rest of us.

I'm so worn out right now. I have my final presentation tomorrow and my two term papers are due either tomorrow or Friday. I'm done with them just about, just need to do a grammar check and make sure all of my citations are right. It's been an exhausting six weeks and I'm glad it's over tomorrow. The school part that is.

We had our little party at ( Read more... )

I'm so sick of the power being out. When I get back home I might go to the electric company and personally thank them for only sucking some of the time instead of most of the time. It's the last week of classes, I have two papers to finish, and I'm stuck fighting 44 other people for a spot at one of the three remaining computers. I kind of wish I ( Read more... )

Sorry it took so long to post this. The power has only been on a few of the hours I've been back and since two of the five computers are broken, and there's 45 people trying to use the remaining three it takes a little time to get one.

So Goa was pretty fun I guess. It was kind of a let down. Our hotel was pretty nice. We had two suites and each ( Read more... )

I'll be gone until late Sunday night. I'm off being a semi-rich American tourist in Goa.

You've probably all seen the news about the Mumbai bombings, since it's apparently all over the world's major news stations. I just wanted to let you all know, in case you're geographically challenged like myself most of the time, that I'm quite far from there and am fine. Thankfully the rest of the group was there a couple of weekends ago and not ( Read more... )

Last night Susheela and I kept hearing strange sounds in our room. We couldn't figure out where they were coming from. Everytime we stood in one place, it sounded like it was coming from someplace else. It's a really weird sound, like someone rolling a marble over a wood floor. Eventually we gave up on looking but the noise continued through the ( Read more... )

Pictures from the weekend are up, but are not captioned yet. I'll do that after I finish this paper for Contemporary India. It's called "Sex Selective Abortion and Female Infanticide; Impact on the Indian Family." I'll probably post it in a few days, after the professor reads over the rough draft so that you can let me know how it sounds.