School Visit

This is my fourth day in India, and I'm finally getting used to the driving. Now the craziness seems normal and sometime more exciting than back at home. But it is still hard to explain. Even videos don’t show exactly how close they get to hitting each other. Yesterday, we had our first class and a few other lecturers. One was a doctor here in New Delhi, and the other was a Delhi historian, named Harini. She took us to a place in Delhi that is called Qutb-Minar (Qutub Minar). It is basically an ancient Islamic prayer tower. Everyone took so many pictures and after seven hours in the classroom it felt good to get up and walk around. We heard a story about a mughal emperor that fell down the stair and died trying to get to the prayer service. I thought to myself how hard is it to walk down the stairs with out falling, then I saw the stairs. They were twice as tall as our stairs and only half as wide. We came back to the house in the taxis from the YMCA and we got the same driver, Asu. He thought we were funny because we kept saying our favorite Hindi phrase, KHANA KHANA HAI!!! Which means “I want to eat food”. He asked Gauri if she wanted to eat food too, haha. When we got back Louis made us a homecooked Indian dinner. Oh my gosh was it delicious. The internet cut out a couple of days ago and then we all had to write a paper that was due today at 5. Some people are still frantically writing, pushing it to the end, and trying to get Gauri to extend the deadline. I don't think she will even though she kept us out all day at the school visit and at lunch. The school visit today was humbling. Many of the kids only had pants on and there were no desks. But they were happy to see us anyways. The picture is some of the students who wanted their picture taken with me. The one in the back is a little shy. As we were leaving, we pooled together and donated about 12,500 rupees, which comes to about 250 dollars. Tonight, we played cricket with some of the local kids, we weren’t very good. But we drew a large crowd, I guess they were saying come and look at the funny Americans playing cricket.