Time for a mid-week update!
Monday was about as ho-hum as it gets- I went to work, worked all day on two different sections of our final report, and then came home, had leftover dal for dinner, skyped for two hours, and then went to bed.
Tuesday. Instead of going to work, Matt, Varun and I went to the All India Management Association (AIMA) Conclave on Management Education. We took the bus to where (we thought) the hotel was that event was at... but we overshot a little. After wandering through a neighborhood and passing by a funeral (the body was in a class case on the street....) we finally caught an auto to where the hotel actually was and arrived just a few minutes late. Whoops! We didn't miss much, and once we got there, we spent the rest of the day learning about management in the Indian context, management education, and- most interestingly- the way Indians conduct themselves in formal professional environments. It was fascinating to see that during the presentations, everyone was quiet, and listened attentively. As soon as the floor was opened up for Q&A though, holy cow. People were talking over each other, interrupting each other, and jumping into conversations with completely irrelevant points just to seem like they were contributing- or just to hear their own voice. It was definitely different from any other conference I've ever been to! After a long day of listening to speakers (including Professor Moledina who spoke about social entrepreneurship), we came home for the evening and had a quiet night in.
Today was also an interesting and disjointed day. Yoshi is still under the weather, so Maria, Amanda and I went in to work, and I worked until about noon. And then the internet gave out and wouldn't connect, and I really needed to be looking at the facebook analytics for the section of the final report I was working on. So I gathered up all of my stuff and came back to the apartments, where amazingly enough, the internet was working. Along the way I had to stop quickly at the grocery store and at a travel agent. Kat and I are planning a weekend trip to Hampi (north from Bangalore- google image it, it looks amazing!) and I was responsible for stopping to look for bus tickets, but the travel agent that I stopped at only hired out cars. Oops! I decided to run back to the apartments to do a little work and eat lunch. When I got back I quickly cooked some maggi (the Indian equivalent of ramen), and did a little bit of work. Around 1:30 I left the apartment again and quickly stopped by the Shanthi Nagar Bus Stand and bought our bus tickets to Hampi (yay!!) and then met Maria and Amanda at another bus stop. From there we walked to Lily's house because Lily couldn't come in to work today, so we worked from her house instead. We spent a very pleasant couple of hours at Lily's outlining the last few bits of our projects and then came home at about 6pm. I did a little more work tonight since I took a little interlude from work this afternoon and then, apparently the Hippocampus group and Kat were the only ones that didn't have dinner plans tonight, so we all ordered delivery from the biryani place around the corner. After waiting more than three times as long as it was supposed to take and calling three times, our food finally came. We won't make the mistake of asking for delivery from there again....
And now its time for bed! I'll upload a bunch of pictures after Kat and I get back from Hampi!
Monday was about as ho-hum as it gets- I went to work, worked all day on two different sections of our final report, and then came home, had leftover dal for dinner, skyped for two hours, and then went to bed.
Tuesday. Instead of going to work, Matt, Varun and I went to the All India Management Association (AIMA) Conclave on Management Education. We took the bus to where (we thought) the hotel was that event was at... but we overshot a little. After wandering through a neighborhood and passing by a funeral (the body was in a class case on the street....) we finally caught an auto to where the hotel actually was and arrived just a few minutes late. Whoops! We didn't miss much, and once we got there, we spent the rest of the day learning about management in the Indian context, management education, and- most interestingly- the way Indians conduct themselves in formal professional environments. It was fascinating to see that during the presentations, everyone was quiet, and listened attentively. As soon as the floor was opened up for Q&A though, holy cow. People were talking over each other, interrupting each other, and jumping into conversations with completely irrelevant points just to seem like they were contributing- or just to hear their own voice. It was definitely different from any other conference I've ever been to! After a long day of listening to speakers (including Professor Moledina who spoke about social entrepreneurship), we came home for the evening and had a quiet night in.
Today was also an interesting and disjointed day. Yoshi is still under the weather, so Maria, Amanda and I went in to work, and I worked until about noon. And then the internet gave out and wouldn't connect, and I really needed to be looking at the facebook analytics for the section of the final report I was working on. So I gathered up all of my stuff and came back to the apartments, where amazingly enough, the internet was working. Along the way I had to stop quickly at the grocery store and at a travel agent. Kat and I are planning a weekend trip to Hampi (north from Bangalore- google image it, it looks amazing!) and I was responsible for stopping to look for bus tickets, but the travel agent that I stopped at only hired out cars. Oops! I decided to run back to the apartments to do a little work and eat lunch. When I got back I quickly cooked some maggi (the Indian equivalent of ramen), and did a little bit of work. Around 1:30 I left the apartment again and quickly stopped by the Shanthi Nagar Bus Stand and bought our bus tickets to Hampi (yay!!) and then met Maria and Amanda at another bus stop. From there we walked to Lily's house because Lily couldn't come in to work today, so we worked from her house instead. We spent a very pleasant couple of hours at Lily's outlining the last few bits of our projects and then came home at about 6pm. I did a little more work tonight since I took a little interlude from work this afternoon and then, apparently the Hippocampus group and Kat were the only ones that didn't have dinner plans tonight, so we all ordered delivery from the biryani place around the corner. After waiting more than three times as long as it was supposed to take and calling three times, our food finally came. We won't make the mistake of asking for delivery from there again....
And now its time for bed! I'll upload a bunch of pictures after Kat and I get back from Hampi!
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