If you still read my journal, you may have noticed that I haven't updated it in a month.  This is due to the fact that I was out of Delhi for a lot of the month and school work and some short bouts of sickness kept me from getting around to updating my journal.  My first trip for the month was to Darjeeling and Kolkata.  Darjeeling is a mountain ( Read more... )

This is an update on two fronts, the Delhi blasts and my personal life.  First, I'll update you all on what happened in Delhi yesterday evening.  There were three explosions throughout Delhi and a fourth bomb was diffused.  For now, the city is actually fairly calm and people seem to be heeding the order to stay inside (probably as a move to ( Read more... )

I just wanted to let you all know that I am okay and was not near the areas of the explosions in Delhi!  We are contacting everyone in our group who is not in the apartments and telling them to come back here immediately!  Like the rest of us who are here, I was pretty shocked when I heard about the explosions.  I was watching a show on BBC World ( Read more... )

Well, the weekend was relatively calm.  On Friday, Jackie's mom, who's here on a surprise visit, cooked a meal for our group and those of us who were back from the college had a nice lunch.  (There were also left-overs that lasted us for another two days!)  On Saturday, I went with Sarah to the National Rail Museum.  (Yes, I've already been there, ( Read more... )

It's been almost a week since I returned to Delhi from my break, and, now, I'm finally feeling motivated enough to make an entry about it.  We left at around 7:30 AM on October 1 to go the airport, where we boarded an Indian Airlines flight to Goa via Mumbai.  The flight was an experience of its own because the inside of the plane was being held ( Read more... )

Yesterday's Harmony was so much fun!  I participated in the chocolate-eating competition after I managed to snag a ticket for it.  Although I didn't win, I got to eat a whole bowl of melted chocolate!  After that, I ended up craving sweets, so I was on a sugar high well into the night.  Later, I was in a sack race and, in the evening, went to the ( Read more... )

I got to go to the daytime portion of Harmony yesterday.  I left the apartment at around noon and headed off to the College.  Once I got there, I milled around for a little bit until I found some people from our apartments.  First, I went with Sarah to the food area, where we got really good rolls.  My roll was filled with egg and paneer (curd ( Read more... )

I spent most of yesterday morning and afternoon in the apartment because I'd agreed to be here to watch over the people who came to change the locks on the doors and closets in each apartment.  During that time, I also looked up airfares for flights between Delhi and Kathmandu, since I would like to visit Nepal while I'm in India.  When I'd looked ( Read more... )

Harmony begins later today, which is pretty exciting because it'll be three days of fun and no classes.  After that's done, there'll only be one full day until we leave for Goa.  Oh, I finally got my points in my Delta SkyMiles account for the Song flight that I took to Orlando last May!  It took quite a bit of haggling to get the job done, but, ( Read more... )

I'm starting to see that St. Stephen's College parallels a high school in ever increasing ways.  I'm sure that even those who are now in college remember having the same set of classes for an entire school year, which was divided up into marking periods and topped-off with a final exam in each class at the end of the year.  Well, rather than ( Read more... )