But I looked at some people's notes and I'm gonna go for it since we were supposed to hand the forms declaring our classes in today ( although time is relative).
Classes meet for 4 hours a week so either 2 hour lectures or 1 hour classes or some combination
So I'm taking:
Conversational Hindi M-Th
Anthropology of Complex Societies ( the one I have yet to attend) M&W
Indian Philosophy T-Th
Gandhian Philosophy M&T
Anthropology of Complex Societies ( the one I have yet to attend) M&W
Indian Philosophy T-Th
Gandhian Philosophy M&T
Then I also meet my Hindi tutor twice a week.
Anyway, on Sunday we had a big CIEE game which was a "treasure hunt" around Hyderabad. We were split into teams and then we had clues and questions to answer at each site. We started on campus then had to take buses and rickshaws around. They gave us 600 R and whichever team spent the least money and arrived earliest to each site would win. It was actually tons of fun though absolutely exhausting. I had Mary, Maya and Craig on my team and Craig was super into it so it was pretty funny. We let him run ahead of us since he really wanted too. Luckily both he and Maya know some Hindi, which was helpful for negotiating rickshaws ( although we still got the 'white tax' and were ripped off). People were teasing Craig cause they said pushed a lady and her kid out of the way at one point running through the mall.... but it was all in good fun, I really don't think he did it.
The locations we had to stop at were a fabric school, where this lady has been keeping the art of loom-weaving alive. The fabrics are beautiful and she employs women who need jobs or are uneducated. The amount of work that goes into these pieces in unbelievable!!! I will get pictures up some time. The second place was lunch at a swanky restaurant in a mall that played American music and had a whole bunch of food from different places including a curry pasta which was pretty yummy. Place number three was the Salar Jung museum, which was neato but we were so tired by that point from running around and hanging out of rickshaws etc.
Our final destination was a sort of school/ self-improvement center. It taught vendanta philosophy (aka sop style philosophy) and things of that nature. It was pretty cool I was just so tired. They had lots of classes which they offered on self-improvement and mind-management. I was super excited because at the end of our little question and answer session the guy said a prayer in sanksrit and it was one that I knew! I had to go ask him what it meant at the end because I couldn't remember but it was the असतोमा सद्गमय prayer, so lead me from untruth to truth, lead me from darkness to light, lead me from death to immortality. They also had a really nice art gallery with teachings illustrated. There was definitely a Hari the lion one :)
AND we actually won second place in the competition so we got 8000R to split between us, which is about $40 each! Hooray.
Anyway, on Sunday we had a big CIEE game which was a "treasure hunt" around Hyderabad. We were split into teams and then we had clues and questions to answer at each site. We started on campus then had to take buses and rickshaws around. They gave us 600 R and whichever team spent the least money and arrived earliest to each site would win. It was actually tons of fun though absolutely exhausting. I had Mary, Maya and Craig on my team and Craig was super into it so it was pretty funny. We let him run ahead of us since he really wanted too. Luckily both he and Maya know some Hindi, which was helpful for negotiating rickshaws ( although we still got the 'white tax' and were ripped off). People were teasing Craig cause they said pushed a lady and her kid out of the way at one point running through the mall.... but it was all in good fun, I really don't think he did it.
The locations we had to stop at were a fabric school, where this lady has been keeping the art of loom-weaving alive. The fabrics are beautiful and she employs women who need jobs or are uneducated. The amount of work that goes into these pieces in unbelievable!!! I will get pictures up some time. The second place was lunch at a swanky restaurant in a mall that played American music and had a whole bunch of food from different places including a curry pasta which was pretty yummy. Place number three was the Salar Jung museum, which was neato but we were so tired by that point from running around and hanging out of rickshaws etc.
Our final destination was a sort of school/ self-improvement center. It taught vendanta philosophy (aka sop style philosophy) and things of that nature. It was pretty cool I was just so tired. They had lots of classes which they offered on self-improvement and mind-management. I was super excited because at the end of our little question and answer session the guy said a prayer in sanksrit and it was one that I knew! I had to go ask him what it meant at the end because I couldn't remember but it was the असतोमा सद्गमय prayer, so lead me from untruth to truth, lead me from darkness to light, lead me from death to immortality. They also had a really nice art gallery with teachings illustrated. There was definitely a Hari the lion one :)
AND we actually won second place in the competition so we got 8000R to split between us, which is about $40 each! Hooray.
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