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What Parents Do for Their Children
Thursday, July 10th 2008
While you are driving through Chennai you will often see signs reading, “If It’s not Hindu it not Indian” For a while I just assumed this was some sort of promotion for the Hindu religion. Until someone, I think it was Todd, pointed out that it is probably an an advertisement for the local newspaper
Penniless Soccer
Wednesday, July 2nd 2008
I spent most of the day without any power. It went off late last night at some point, was on briefly this morning, but other than that left me alone. Which in one sense turned out to be good since my freezer badly needed to be defrosted and is now currently free of ice. Around
Culture Shock at Home
Monday, June 30th 2008
June 30, 2008 – Chennai, India 14:36 (GMT +5:30) Bruce Neumann recently sent me a short paper dealing with Culture Shock it was an interesting article, and was written to help people understand and deal with adjusting to a foreign environment. But I think it and papers like it could have another and far more
Retreat
Thursday, June 12th 2008
June 6, 2008 – 7:01 (+5:30 GMT) – Yelagiri Hills, India I’m am currently staying in the Yelagiri Hills. Which are a type of Indian Resort Town. Fairly high up in elevation the hills are currently 15 – 25 degrees cooler than Chennai. Which puts the weather in the mid to high 80s, refreshingly cool
The Hidden Valley
Tuesday, May 27th 2008
May 27, 2008 – 21:18 (+5:45 GMT) – Kathmandu, Nepal After a day of grueling, grueling because we were forced to get up at 3:30am, travel Todd and I arrived in the capital of Nepal, the day before the government is officially to become a democracy. I don’ t know where to start. Despite the
May Day
Thursday, May 1st 2008
May 1, 2008 – 10:51 (GMT +5:30) – 32oC (90oF) – San Thome Rd, Mylapore, Chennai, India Here is the thing about India, its very very different from the US, here the one thing everyone cares about is money. That was sarcastic by the way. In fact more than once I have heard the comment,
Q&A
Monday, April 28th 2008
April 28, 2008 – 14:30 (GMT +5:30) – 30oC (89oF) – San Thome Rd, Mylapore, Chennai, India Every once in a while my sister will make comments that seems to indicate she believes me to be a reasonably intelligent guy. Well I can’t let my sister get away with being right, so I continue to
Health
Sunday, April 20th 2008
April 20, 2008 – 00:46 (GMT +5:30) – 28oC (82oF) – San Thome Rd, Mylapore, Chennai, India It should be noted that yesterday my washing machine attempted once again to take me down with it. While I would prefer that the machine not break at all, I definitely would prefer it would not use me
Pizza With Crickets
Thursday, April 3rd 2008
April 03, 2008 – 15:22 (GMT +5:30) – 32oC (89.6oF) – San Thome Rd, Mylapore, Chennai, India Two days ago I walked out of my apartment to go get some errands done. Two of the neighbor kids were out there playing ball, but immediately stopped for the greater enjoyment of bombarding me with questions. Like
Seven Thousand and Thiry Five
Sunday, March 16th 2008
March 16, 2008 – 21:48 (GMT +5:30) – 27oC (80oF) – Chennai, India In my last blog I mentioned that the one image that stood out in my mind from the trip is simply the overwhelming immensity of the work yet to be done. The vast populations of Indians who have not yet heard about