Neutrino

नमस्ते दोस्तों! namaste dosto (Hello friends!)

Like a said before I am going to try real hard to be committed to this website thingy because last time, there were a few casualties when I went on hiatus. I have yet to bring my camera to any of our wonderful excursions and my tales will most certainly be out of order because I like to add entropy to the world whenever I can.

As a nice sum up of the days previous, which I will hopefully delve into on a later date, here are some of the highlights that will not get you up to speed in any means, just to give you a glimpse of my international epic thus far: 

• Airport refugee
• Yoga brain and the right arm buffet
• I don't speak "No" and/or tears on my pillow
• Gluttony: A a dichotomous story of food and board games
• ek, dois, three in Kannada and/or I should learn English first
• Pigeon monkeys and elephant prisons
• Hair maulestation

And as a delicious treat for your eyes and mind, I will allow you to engage in this rather boring yet epiphanic moment while I was in class if you can believe it or not.

The thing about study abroad classes is that you don't even realize you are in class until you find yourself drifting off in the middle of a really interesting "lecture" or you look down and you see that you have actually been taking notes. Holy crap am I learning? Why yes I am.

Science and technology is where most of the magic happens. Its the class I have been waiting for ever since I read it that it was offered back when I applied. And it only reaffirmed my notion to take the class when we met our teacher, Dr. Ninelakes, as I like to call him.

He does not refer to himself as a professor, merely a man who has to get his thoughts and knowledge acquired over an exciting existence out of his brain, and based on what he has shared with us so far, I'm surprised he doesn't talk 24/7 in order to offset his heavy* thoughts.

I have always known that my thoughts, values, and outlook on life are do not exactly match up to any particular religion (nor any other human for that matter) but Ninelakes and his powerpoints put me at ease knowing that I haven't just produced nonsense concepts for the past 10 or so years.

I will not indulge in a full blown belief system shpeel which will create a bloody battle in the comments section, (although, I will intice one on a later date) but its quite refeshing to see someone focused more on the bottom line when it comes to life rather than the materials and the importance we place on them.

I am now closer than ever to hopping from farm to farm in the tropical abyss that is South America and South Asia. And if I do, I'll still keep up with this website thingy. :)

*the 1970s usage of the term