India 1. Lee 0.
Before I left for India, my mother insisted upon packing an entire roll of toilet paper into my suitcase, against my wishes I might add. I figured I’d have no trouble picking some up in Hyderabad or wherever else I ended up.
Indeed, in Hyderabad I’d probably be right. However, [...]

Posted on July 29th, 2005 by Lee
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Sitting here in the Internet café, the attendant just changed the music from the same single Indian pop song that’s been playing for the last hour to the Backstreet Boys. Just for me.
This is after the extra waiter at the restaurant where waiters outnumber customers turned on the TV and found some random Hollywood [...]

Posted on July 28th, 2005 by Lee
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… and I’ve used up my bad line dance reference quota for the next year. But really, there’s nothing quite like walking around a small city in India in the evening as the power goes out.
It’s certainly nothing like a power outage in the U.S., which almost always has a readily identifiable cause. [...]

Posted on July 28th, 2005 by Lee
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Today we had a fun little visit to the office of the Soil Chemist.
The soil chemist’s office in Berhampur is a big building in an out of the way place with a doorman. I don’t understand why there’s a doorman, as I’m quite certain that no one ever comes to the door. When [...]

Posted on July 26th, 2005 by Lee
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There needs to be a discussion board for students alone abroad in random places.
The discussion would move at a snail’s pace I’m sure. Next week, you’d check back and Joe in Zaire would finally be able to leave his village to get online and write about his experience. But I don’t think that [...]

Posted on July 24th, 2005 by Lee
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