july 8-12: getting to know your neighbors very well, dirty mirrors, and Tamil-language newspapers
I found an English-speaking Seventh-day Adventist church and decided to pay it a visit on Saturday. All the attendees were, unsuprisingly, Indian, except for one black dude, who looked like a foreigner. I decided to give him the hey-your-a-foreigner-too nod, but he didn't reciprocate.
Picture above: My benchmates for the 5 hour train ride down to southern India. The guy in the orange collared-shirt is Milton. He runs operations for the Bridge Foundation.
Milton makes field visits all the time to visit NGOs (non-governmental organizations) and MFIs (micro-finance institutions) that the Bridge Foundation both funds and manages. He let me tag along for the seven-day excursion.
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We arrived in the large city of Salem Tuesday night (11th) after a five-hour train ride. We had to go through a hearty security check before we left the train station. Milton and I were really confused.
We then hopped on a bus for a three-hour drive to Karur. We arrived very early Wednesday morning and found a hotel. The mirror's condition is a visual metaphor for how I felt.
The newspaper at our door later Wednesday morning explained everything.
posted by Andrew at 10:40 AM
4 Comments:
Did you have to sit on that "shelf" for the whole 5 hrs?
no, i sat down on the bench with four other people.
it was a four man bench so we had a good time.
For some reason i always nod to black people also. Would you take a shelf over a chair?
you definitely have to go with the bench. unless you can get a whole shelf to yourself. its not an official seat, so if you grab one you can lay down. laying down=bonus points
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