a couple randoms

Thank you dad—I’ve picked up every one of your penny-pinching tendencies and resumed the role of secretary in our traveling group. This is me fanatically figuring out the scribble-y supper bill as everyone else breathes peacefully…Jens looks ready to double check it though...

Good morning cows! That's the School of Social Sciences in the background. It's nice to have some comforts of home...heheh.

Our meals at the guesthouse are excellent, even if they do leave out half of the standard South Indian chili peppers. This was a meal (Jens's meal) we were served on a holiday—a banana leaf with different curries, chutneys, rice and roti for eating with. Silverware—ha. Completely unnecessary.
The guesthouse is nicer than I’d like to admit, even if the electricity is cut for hours every day and the showers are usually cold. We have western toilets, (WITH toilet paper!!) mattresses on our beds, locks on our doors and lounge chairs in the common rooms. I wasn’t expecting to be pampered like this…however, the house is still in full swing construction (and will be most of the semester, I think) which means the hammering happens all day and the best naps are under trees around campus. No complaints here though—I try to spend as little time as possible enclosed in cement. Although I’m sure come March, it’ll be a different story!