Yesterday we arrived in Banaras, our new home after an overnight train ride. We’ve been staying in a hotel that works closely with our program and have been busy with orientations and seeing the city. We met with some of the Professors at BHU(Banaras Hindu University)`that we will be working with in the future. I got a chance to talk with a few people who might be able to help me with my research and feel a lot better about finding a professor to work with. I also met the man who will be teaching me Urdu and who will perhaps be my advisor. We also went clothes shopping and I found that yet again I do not fit well into clothes made for Indian women. Our director, Vidya Ji, wasYesterday we arrived in Banaras, our new home after an overnight train ride. We’ve been staying in a hotel that works closely with our program and have been busy with orientations and seeing the city. We met with some of the Professors at BHU(Banaras Hindu University)`that we will be working with in the future. I got a chance to talk with a few people who might be able to help me with my research and feel a lot better about finding a professor to work with. I also met the man who will be teaching me Urdu and who will perhaps be my advisor. We also went clothes shopping and I found that yet again I do not fit well into clothes made for Indian women. Our director, Vidya Ji, was most helpful though in giving me ideas and scheduling a meeting with a tailor in order to get a few suit made. I really got a chance to use my Hindi while choosing and buying fabric. Everyone seemed very surprised and pleased at the fact that I spoke Hindi and I had a few fun conversations about my program, myself and clothes. The sales assistants here are very helpful, which scared some of the other girls, who were just looking for simple things, but I was very grateful for all of the help I could get. This afternoon I will pick up my first ever indian-tailored silwar-kamiz suit! Now all I need are some dupatas. I also really need to do laundry, but I think it will have to wait until tomorrow night. We are leaving Varanasi, which is HOT and HUMID this time of year for Mussori, which is in the mountains, for a two week language retreat. Internet access is not always easy to get. This morning we woke to find the internet router gone from our hotel and not a single employee that knows the password.
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