While I made it through round 1 of the stomach bug without being caught, I wasn't so lucky when it came to round 2. The good news is that round 2 didn't seem to be as bad, but I was still down for 6 days. So, I spent last week doing a lot of sleeping. The students on the other hand had a marketing paper due and 2 tests. I had the pleasure of grading the marketing papers, as well as creating and grading one of the tests. So, I was pretty busy when I wasn't sleeping!
All of this not feeling well made for a pretty dull weekend, which turned into all kinds of fun on Monday morning! Seems that on Saturday night, while I was busy sleeping, the students were busy partying in the male dorms. The dorms are actually across the street (a kinda busy street - the students equate crossing it to playing frogger - did I mention that pedestrians definitely don't have the right of way in India?) from each other, so I had no idea what was going on. Well, apparently at 11:30, 12:30 and finally at 1:30 the Dean of the college had to ask them to be quiet. Here, it is the law that noise not be heard outside of one's home after 10:30 at night, and this is why the Dean was concerned (breaking this noise law is grounds for arrest). So, these actions led to a talk with the Dean this morning (Monday) as well as Dr. Umashankar (head professor on the trip). Normally, my job is to make sure all students are in their dorms (girls in girl's, boys in boy's) and are quiet by midnight. Fell down on this job since I wasn't feeling well. Not to worry though - next weekend I will be back on duty!
All of this not feeling well made for a pretty dull weekend, which turned into all kinds of fun on Monday morning! Seems that on Saturday night, while I was busy sleeping, the students were busy partying in the male dorms. The dorms are actually across the street (a kinda busy street - the students equate crossing it to playing frogger - did I mention that pedestrians definitely don't have the right of way in India?) from each other, so I had no idea what was going on. Well, apparently at 11:30, 12:30 and finally at 1:30 the Dean of the college had to ask them to be quiet. Here, it is the law that noise not be heard outside of one's home after 10:30 at night, and this is why the Dean was concerned (breaking this noise law is grounds for arrest). So, these actions led to a talk with the Dean this morning (Monday) as well as Dr. Umashankar (head professor on the trip). Normally, my job is to make sure all students are in their dorms (girls in girl's, boys in boy's) and are quiet by midnight. Fell down on this job since I wasn't feeling well. Not to worry though - next weekend I will be back on duty!
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