December 2009
5 posts
Welcome to the Tagore International House
I spent the first two days in India stuck at the Tagore International House. I couldn’t leave for two reasons, first there is civil unrest in the city and a bandh (a complete halt of public transportation, shops, and activities) was called, and secondly I had no transportation and no where to go. The Tagore International House is my dorm, and it’s not like any other dorm I’ve...
Arrival
Plane rides are always uncomfortable, especially ones that are 16 hours long. They feed you too much and there is no room to really move around. I stopped in Dubai to change planes and I ended up missing my plane to Hyderabad. We were about an hour and a half late so it turns out that most of the people missed their flight to India. So I ended up meeting some really nice people and chilling for a...
Civil unrest in Hyderabad
I’m not too familiar with Indian politics but I have tried to follow what is going on in Hyderabad right now. In a quick summary, Hyderabad is the capital of Andhra Pradesh but several political groups (headed by the political party TRS) want a separation of the state. They propose the creation of the state Telangana which is currently a region in Andhra Pradesh and Hyderabad is located...
Funding my trip
In a few days I will be leaving the comfort of my routine life to study for a few months at the University of Hyderabad. I don’t have family or many acquaintances there and I can’t speak the language, but why would that stop me from going? I may only have a few opportunities to travel in my life, so I wanted to travel somewhere outside my comfort zone. That meant going to a country...