Alright I've figured out the best way to tell a story is with pictures to show you all what happened. I've done this here:
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2305959&id=21411303&l=f7a23ebae8
It has all my best photos and tells the story as I travel through India.
Below is the link to my photojournal of actually trying to get there... and the trip back
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2297727&id=21411303&l=42ed30a25d
Enjoy
and Happy Travels
Thursday, February 25, 2010
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
I'm back in one piece
So I made it back in one piece. I got sick from eating meat when I got back. So let that be a lesson after eating no meat for more than two weeks, don't eat a cheeseburger and an all meaty meat pizza the day you get back. Actually I didn't get use to meat again for about a week after I got back.
Anyway, this is the first of my follow up posts. I've been goin through my pictures from the trip and I think they are the best way to recall and comment about what happened. I'm posting the London ones today on my facebook profile so go check them out! London was certainly and interesting bend in the journey. In my prev post I explained that there was a delay, what i didn't explain was the delay was for a change in light bulb and waiting for other flights so they could make their connections. But when we got stuck in Newark they blaimed it on weather and refused to give us much help. At this point I was pretty low, I wanted to go talk to the Continental lady and blame them... but it was my place... so i just tried to go on with the flow. That night I was sure Dan was gonna contact the Hnrs office and they were gonna say to schedule tickets to come back home and cut the losses... boy am I glad this didn't happen. We split into two groups and my group spent the day in London.
Although we were freezin (cause we were dressed for 80 Mumbai weather [always bring a wind breaker while traveling]) we saw some awesome things. Museum, big ben, the tube, and spent some time at a English Pub. The story to tell though is how half of us went to the pub and the other half went to the museum. The group that went to the museum said they would meet us at the museum cafe in an hour. So Pub group decided to spend an extra 15 min at the pub... cause we were havin a damn good time. Anyhoo... ended up at the cafe about 20-30 min late, and other half of our group... not there... I went a look around the museum lobby and checked the entrance and bathrooms... nobody. So after waiting for a while we decided we had to go. And hope they would make it to the terminal and we'd meet up with them there (side note... we're in london, our cells don't work). Anyhoo they did make it to the terminal... after us... turns out there were two cafes (both serving cupcakes in a pyramid fashion), in the basement of this museum. Anyhoo... I'm not an experienced Tube traveler.
... more later... next... The King Fisher Experience!
Anyway, this is the first of my follow up posts. I've been goin through my pictures from the trip and I think they are the best way to recall and comment about what happened. I'm posting the London ones today on my facebook profile so go check them out! London was certainly and interesting bend in the journey. In my prev post I explained that there was a delay, what i didn't explain was the delay was for a change in light bulb and waiting for other flights so they could make their connections. But when we got stuck in Newark they blaimed it on weather and refused to give us much help. At this point I was pretty low, I wanted to go talk to the Continental lady and blame them... but it was my place... so i just tried to go on with the flow. That night I was sure Dan was gonna contact the Hnrs office and they were gonna say to schedule tickets to come back home and cut the losses... boy am I glad this didn't happen. We split into two groups and my group spent the day in London.
Although we were freezin (cause we were dressed for 80 Mumbai weather [always bring a wind breaker while traveling]) we saw some awesome things. Museum, big ben, the tube, and spent some time at a English Pub. The story to tell though is how half of us went to the pub and the other half went to the museum. The group that went to the museum said they would meet us at the museum cafe in an hour. So Pub group decided to spend an extra 15 min at the pub... cause we were havin a damn good time. Anyhoo... ended up at the cafe about 20-30 min late, and other half of our group... not there... I went a look around the museum lobby and checked the entrance and bathrooms... nobody. So after waiting for a while we decided we had to go. And hope they would make it to the terminal and we'd meet up with them there (side note... we're in london, our cells don't work). Anyhoo they did make it to the terminal... after us... turns out there were two cafes (both serving cupcakes in a pyramid fashion), in the basement of this museum. Anyhoo... I'm not an experienced Tube traveler.
... more later... next... The King Fisher Experience!
Friday, December 18, 2009
Update!!!! 12.19.09
Ok... quick I have 15min to update. Internet at our hostile is scarce. I'll fill in details later.
Last I spoke I was talking about the stuff we were planning on doing when we got to India ... but that all changed when we got here. But let me start in the Beginining of the trip...
Our flight was delayed in Newark... so were stranded in New York for a awhile. But then we got a plane to London where we spent the day. Then we got a plane on Kingfisher, a 5 star, airlines to mumbai. We had all of one day in Mumbai where we saw Gateway to India, and had sooo many crazy trips in a taxi. Then we got to Ahmedabad and drove to the the village Chosala, just outside of Dahod where the Sadguru compound is located here. The place is awesome. I quick weird comment... no showers... your whole entire bathroom is a shower. So we visited three villages over the last 3 days, my village was Ranapur (but I got to see them all). I can't wait to show you all the pictures. Yesterday the elite of the city through us a party with lots of dancing. It was awesome! And i probably embarrassed myself more than i should have. EVERYWHERE THE FOOD IS AMAZING.
alright out of time.... today we are visiting a farm
Last I spoke I was talking about the stuff we were planning on doing when we got to India ... but that all changed when we got here. But let me start in the Beginining of the trip...
Our flight was delayed in Newark... so were stranded in New York for a awhile. But then we got a plane to London where we spent the day. Then we got a plane on Kingfisher, a 5 star, airlines to mumbai. We had all of one day in Mumbai where we saw Gateway to India, and had sooo many crazy trips in a taxi. Then we got to Ahmedabad and drove to the the village Chosala, just outside of Dahod where the Sadguru compound is located here. The place is awesome. I quick weird comment... no showers... your whole entire bathroom is a shower. So we visited three villages over the last 3 days, my village was Ranapur (but I got to see them all). I can't wait to show you all the pictures. Yesterday the elite of the city through us a party with lots of dancing. It was awesome! And i probably embarrassed myself more than i should have. EVERYWHERE THE FOOD IS AMAZING.
alright out of time.... today we are visiting a farm
Wednesday, November 25, 2009
First Post - Hectic Schedule
Hello! I guess first, I'll introduce myself. My name is Nathan. I've decided to create this blog to document my experience with my Environmental Sustainability Class trip to India. Specifically we are working with the NGO, Sadguru, in rural villages near Dahod India.
What's it about??? -
Well we decided to concentrate on Agriculture and especially irrigation. India has one dry season and one monsoon season. Before the green revolution Currently in India, there was large food shortages. One of the solutions to this problem was to use flood irrigation methods to water their fields, effectively creating two growing seasons: Monsoon & Irrigation (during the dry season). To flood irrigate they have created large check damns to capture more water during the monsoon season. They then pump water out of the aquifer during the dry season. The problem is this is causing metals, usually trapped under the ground to be brought up disolved in the water from the aquifer and spread upon the surface by the flood irrigation. This can cause problems such as flourosis. They have also found that the aquifer isn't being replenished quite as fast as it's being taken. So, we've broken up into teams with a few solutions/research interests in mind pertaining to agriculture.
What Group Am I??? -
I'm in the design group!!! So far we've build a drip irrigation system in my back yard. It worked but it was a bit finicky. Another member took it home this turkey weekend to calibrate it. But my biggest hair pulling thing right now is we are also try to my a pot for pot irrigation. I'll post some descriptions of the systems later.
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Nathan
Nathan
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