Wow!

I just arrived at my second home and it is truly incredible! My room has a huge bed, sofa, private bath, and walk-out. it also has wash clothes :) (just for Alex). I am really hoping for hot water!! It is so surprising that a minute before we pulled up we saw not so nice of areas and then we walk into this huge (must be 5000 sq feet at least), beautiful home. I'm staying with a Mechanical engineer, his wife, and 2 children. AND there is wireless Internet :) I felt inclined to hang all of my clothes up in the closet and truly unpack so that I am comfortable here. Its a good feeling.

Right before I arrived here, we went to a Rotary Public School (and in India public means private). It was incredible. They have 2000 students from K-12. The chemistry class was covering things I learned in gen chem. The physics class was covering things I learned in differential equations (2nd year of college) and these were 16 year-olds. No wonder these kids are brilliant! This school was started by a Rotarian in the 1980's and has grown from 4 classrooms to the current size. The students win many awards and are well versed in the arts. It was really cool to see these little bulletin boards around the school - they had great quotes, I wish I would have written them down! I thought about Julie a ton!

In about an hour and 15 minutes I will be picked up to go to a "modern shopping mall" that apparently has 4 floors and each one is a 1 km loop. hopefully I'll find something for the wedding. Then, we have dinner at a Rotarian's house and I am looking forward to sleeping!

The plans keep changing - instead of going to the Hero Honda factory, we are now going to go to 3 Rotarian's factories. One is in polymers/rubber (I'm super excited for that!), one in textiles (major exporters to places like the Gap), and another is in auto parts. After that we will have lunch and whatever else and it sounds like we will go to 3 Idiots tomorrow :) The long awaited movie....but apparently it doesn't have subtitles so who knows what it will be like.

The plan now is to organize my photos and "freshen up". More fun to come! But of course I'll post pictures first :)