Monthly Archives: November 2010

Happy Thanksgiving to everyone back home! Sapna and I celebrated with friends on Friday after returning from a week of travels related to her research. Our main destinations were Kochi and Thrissur, but we also made day trips to Palakkad … Continue reading →

Friday was my first day actually teaching a class in India, and it was a lot of fun. I’ve spent so much time and aggravation trying to get into classrooms and volunteer that I’d almost forgotten how much I truly … Continue reading →

So Sapna and I are currently languishing over election results in America and Trivandrum. Our local panchayat seat went to a Bharatiya Janata Party candidate. The BJP is a right-wing Hindu nationalist movement whose politics mainly revolve around political intimidation … Continue reading →

This week was both very productive and frustrating (as many of my weeks here have been). The lesson I was supposed to teach last Friday didn’t come off in the end- the vice-principal called to say that exams were beginning … Continue reading →