Last week finished off with a trip to the local vegetable market where the students tried their hand at negotiating the price of mangoes, and then a business visit to Biocon and Radel. Everyone was ready for a little down time come Friday night, so several of us headed off to Hard Rock happy hour. My friend Karthik was in Bangalore for the weekend, so he met us there. After some good food and a couple of drinks, we headed back home - some of us very excited by the opportunity to sleep!
On Saturday, one of the students, Crystal, and I decided that we wanted to see some of the sites in Bangalore. So, we grabbed an auto rickshaw and headed to Bull Temple. The temple itself wasn't that impressive as we have seen statues of Nandi Bull before and been to other temples, but the grounds outside of the temple were gorgeous. It was so green and lush, a vast difference from most of Bangalore.
This next week is the last week in the first session of classes, which makes this the equivalent of finals week. Thus, the students are very busy with projects and tests, and therefore Sunday was a pretty quiet day. One of the other residents here asked me where the students had gone for the day, seeing as how he hadn't heard or seen any of them (a real rarity!). I told him that they all were indeed here, but were in their rooms studying. He seemed pleased with the quiet day this presented him with.
At the end of this week we will be traveling again. This time it is the Golden Triangle trip - Delhi, Agra, and Jaipur. Everyone is looking forward to the trip, and even more to a week without homework, or in my case papers to grade. All in all, we are enjoying ourselves here in Incredible India!
On Saturday, one of the students, Crystal, and I decided that we wanted to see some of the sites in Bangalore. So, we grabbed an auto rickshaw and headed to Bull Temple. The temple itself wasn't that impressive as we have seen statues of Nandi Bull before and been to other temples, but the grounds outside of the temple were gorgeous. It was so green and lush, a vast difference from most of Bangalore.
Following that stop we proceeded to Tipu's Palace,
which is small, but has beautiful architecture. We then headed over to
Church Street, which is in the central part of the city, where we
walked around, looked in some shops, and then had dinner.
This next week is the last week in the first session of classes, which makes this the equivalent of finals week. Thus, the students are very busy with projects and tests, and therefore Sunday was a pretty quiet day. One of the other residents here asked me where the students had gone for the day, seeing as how he hadn't heard or seen any of them (a real rarity!). I told him that they all were indeed here, but were in their rooms studying. He seemed pleased with the quiet day this presented him with.
At the end of this week we will be traveling again. This time it is the Golden Triangle trip - Delhi, Agra, and Jaipur. Everyone is looking forward to the trip, and even more to a week without homework, or in my case papers to grade. All in all, we are enjoying ourselves here in Incredible India!
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