Update

One stop shop for Pictures from traveling
Check out my collages there! I love them :) I want to make a book when I get back!

On another note: went climbing today and cleaned and set some great bouldering routes!

I register tonight! Looks like I will be taking a guitar class, an environmental studies class, and my task force regarding political participation in the EU.

I start my internship more aggressively this week. No more meetings to set up meetings, although I am sure that will happen (much of my past week). I have prepared a survey for farmers, and am meeting the the Block Development Officer tomorrow for questions (essentially a city council member/governor). I also will be doing a homestay Wed-Fri for the next three weeks in order to complete my fieldwork with an interpreter. Eeek! I'm a bit nervous since I have never done one before, although am looking forward to it in some respects.

Subadra Channa, a former Fullbright professor is visiting this week and will be giving a guest lecture. Should be good! Also this upcoming weekend, Shekar Pathak, known as the "encyclopedia of Uttarakhand" will be coming, in addition to a cultural group (whatever that means! I'll find out!)

We had a late Halloween celebration the other night where we carved pumpkins and apple bobbed! I put an OM symbol in my pumpkin and failed at the apple bobbing. I had never done it before! It was such a pleasant surprise! I was reminded that I will be missing Thanksgiving, which I am rather disappointed about :( Particularly because we will be on our homestay. Talk about being as far removed from my family and even the familiar on a holiday!

Not much time left at Sonapani, due to the homestays, and we will be heading out to Corbett National Park in the beginning of December. I don't mind the idea of this last month going by fast, although no worries, I am enjoying it!