Periodic Table. I offered extra credit to my students for doing full page element layouts. This way, i can make a giant, student made, periodic table. I am probably not going to be able to finish it though. too bad.
So, India. First, we had to get visas. that involves going to the embassy, filling forms out, paying $77, and leaving my passport with them. All that would be just plain annoying if only they didn't also require the pictures on the forms to meet certain, unrevealable conditions. The first time we went there, we couldn't even find the embassy! When we finally did, we were too late, since they only accept applications between 900 and 1100. When Phil went back the next time, my application was returned because I was missing a page. That is understandable. Then, when I sent it again, it was turned down because the pictures were "wrong." No more explanation than that. There was a scratch on it, so I came back the next day with fresh pictures. Great, except the scratch wasn't the problem. The background was blue instead of white. Went back the next day, and the background was STILL too dark, but he took it and told me to bring better pictures on Friday, the day I was leaving. Fine, came back with new pictures on Friday, and he told me to come back at 1430. Flight was at 1700. Grrrr! Fine! Went back, paid my fortune, and fortunately, Gary Rogers had offered to drive me since i thought i would probably need to hurry, so we went to the airport.
Finally on the way! Got to Thailand, and we were too late for the van up to mission college. So, we stayed the night in Alex's room, and left for the van at 0500. Very early. Long trip up. Got there just in time for church. It was so so so awesome! A real church... Hymns, pews, sermon in English, and cool bulletins. Absolutely loved it. We spent the afternoon with Pastor Ashlock and his daughters, which was also completely awesome. Then we had a fantastic supper, and played a game called Puerto Rico, which I totally got my ass kicked at. Grrr. Oh well. I have gotten kind of a reputation for sucking at games. Which is odd, cuz I am after all a nerd. I have played more Risk, poker, apples to apples, settlers of catan, and the like than anyone else here, and i still manage to lose consistently. Bah!
Pastor Ashlock, who let us stay at his house Saturday night, made us delicious pancakes of deliciousness for breakfast with homemade peanut butter and syrup. I ate so very much. Rarely have I been so happy for pancakes. Sunday, we rode back, hopped on the plane after meeting up with Nikki at the airport, and flew off to Kolkota. We grabbed our bags, and headed to the train station, where we proceeded to wait for 5 hours to get on a train to Agra. I had some good Indian food, so it was ok. They had 2 guys bathrooms! One was just for peeing, and the other one had squatpots. that was cool. We almost got kicked out of the restaurant for playing dutch blitz (another game that i suck at).
Got on the train after much wrangling, and headed off to Agra. 21 hours...
Continue tomorrow night.
Go to bed all you people!
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