This is my first day in the dorms at the Indian Institute of Management in Ahmedabad. The room is nice and it even has wireless! I need to get a few things to spruce the place up. My welcome package included: a phone for my room, a plug in mosquito repellent, and a surge protector. The room has a nice big desk with shelves, a bed and pillow, two big post-it boards, two chairs, a little stool and a cabinet that is like a military locker. At one end of the room there are double doors that open out to a green area and walkway. There is a security guard at the top of the stairs 24 hours. I've noticed some other foreigners, but hadn't talked to anyone until lunchtime. I was sitting feeling a bit miserable about the status of my language skills and about not knowing a soul, and then a German guy leaned over to me to ask why he hadn't seen me before. We talked for a little while and I learned that there are 38 European exchange students and that they are all leaving soon. I wonder whether I will be the only foreigner after that. He told me that all the classes are in English and that nobody speaks Hindi or Gujarati in that group. It is a strange thing that even when I get my Gujarati back up to speed the only people I can count on speaking Gujarati are the staff and anyone outside of the gates, otherwise I have no idea. The Indian students could be from anywhere.
It is hard to know where to start with all of this, but I am trying to spend the next few days getting myself completely set up here and starting to make phone calls, and then I will start making contact with local NGOs and having meetings with the contacts I made over the summer.
3 comments:
Bom-dia,minha querida amiga!Eu não sabia deste seu blog. Lembro que você avisou que criaria uma esquina assim, em seu mundo globe-trotter. Ficou bem instalado e convidativo, portas e janelas escancaradas para os amigos. Você, que já é encantadora ao vivo, agora dá o ar da sua graça de um jeito também só seu - alma da Kacy em bits! Que bom que temos essa ponte. Tenho agora motivação para escrever mais emails e comentários, as formas mais simples, rápidas e diretas de estar próximos sem estar lado a lado. Adoro você, desejo que a Índia faça muito bem a você e você certamente fará bem aos hindus. Beijos e abraços a você e a Sage, com saudades brasileiríssimas. Smack!
Kacy, querida, sempre é difícil para mim pensar em você com palavras. Só posso dizer que estou orgulhosa de você, do seu caminho, da sua jornada, e rezando para dar tudo certo, eu sei que vai dar, já deu! Te amo muito e boa sorte! Lu
Kacy! Your room is so cute, and the windows are particularly sweet! Looks like a good set-up, with some nesting required. I'm glad you talked to the German! Love you lots!
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