First Week

All right, I'm well overdue for my first post.  I arrived in India on Saturday and got to my apartment that night.  I'm staying about a two hour drive from Delhi which makes me feel a little isolated, but in the next few weeks we'll probably be more creative in how we get into the city.  

I'm already making great friends, both American and Indian.  And I'm being fed so, so much delicious food. Below is what was delivered to our rooms (unbeknownst to us) because the mess hall here at the apartment complex is closed for lunch.  The YIF (Young India Fellows) live here at this complex as well, so we eat with them at breakfast and dinner when they're here as opposed to on campus for classes which started yesterday.  The YIF are equivalent to graduate students, so they start early--we'll start classes with the undergraduates on Sept. 1.

I also was able to travel into the city yesterday after attending a book fair with my colleagues and faculty members to decide what will be in the library.  We went to two separate malls to get some basic necessities.  I got toilet paper, hand lotion, and two really awesome pieces of clothing.  I got a kurti which is like a tunic and some very summery pants:

We have relatively good internet, though we have power surges for a minute at most quite a few times a day.  The water pressure in the shower is great, though there's no hot water--we don't need it though because it's so so hot and humid right now.  It's rained today for the first time since I've arrived.  The monsoon season is very close, it might even be starting today.  Once the monsoon comes through it'll be cooler.  And I've been told that October will be so beautiful and the winter is really lovely.  I have a lot to be excited about.

Tonight I'll be traveling with my writing center colleagues to our boss's house for dinner and a sleep over (so we won't have to travel back a long distance late at night).  Until next time, lvoes!