Monday, May 21, 2012

We woke up to another wonderful breakfast at Sarah’s house and went back to Symbiosis where fans were on and working using solar power. There we talked with Mr. Asrar, just clearing up a few small details with the project, like what kind of data they will be sending us and how, what his plans are for expansion of the school, and how to keep the dogs away from the installation. Then Asrar and Tejank signed a certificate for Global Eco Power that says that they completed the project and it is working satisfactorily. Rahul, a GEP associate, came by to pick it up and we managed to keep him hostage for a long time with questions. Of course, he was very helpful and brought up some great ideas for data logging. Mr. Asrar had a lot of different options for that and other questions we had, so he will have to decide and keep us in the loop. Then, we counted up how many low-watt fans had been installed in the school already. Throughout the time we were at the school, students kept walking up to us and giving us even more thank you cards and asking for autographs. We also got to hang out with many of the teachers there, and some of them said they would come play cricket with us Wednesday. I certainly hope they do, because they seemed very cool. I even remember some of their names! (If you’ve ever been introduced to 15+ people at once every day for 4 days straight, you probably understand how proud I am of that fact). Anyway, I’m a bit shaky on the order of things, but that was basically our day at the school. Throughout, we had tried to contact some other local schools and the Rampur chapter of Rotary International. Unfortunately, none of them got back to us yesterday, so we ended up having to take a bit of a half day. We went back to Sarah’s house and hung out with them for a bit. Then we met Sam’s cousin Abir at the bazaar to help us pick out some fundraising items and a couple gifts for our families. She had a real talent for haggling, and I was glad to have her opinions on style since I am hopelessly lost when it comes to shopping, and Tejank, Josh, and Sam were being kind of unhelpful. After finding out that we hadn’t actually experienced real Indian traffic until our rickshaw trip back, we relaxed some more at Sarah’s house, watching A Beautiful Mind. All in all, it was a very pleasant day, if unfortunately a little less productive than we’d hoped.

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