Money Changing and Driving Like an Indian

Yep, that was my adventure yesterday. I had to exchange some dollars for rupees so I went there Indian style. Hanging onto the back of a moped and lots of honking in traffic. It was really kind of fun actually. I was riding on the back of Dr. Nuckolls's moped and something that I noticed as we were driving to the bank was that people here honk differently. Let me explain. People in America honk to say "move out of the way moron!" whereas people here, for the most part, honk to say "I'm here, don't hit me." It's more of an alert system then a show people how pissed off you are system.

And changing money was really interesting. I had to fill out forms, show them my passport, give them my bills, they gave me a brass token, I then had to take the brass token to a teller and he would give me money. So a lot longer process to exchange money here than in the United States. But there was air conditioning in the bank, so I was okay with that. :)

I also met my first contact yesterday for my research project which is great! I was able to meet and talk to him as well as get a lot of information to start off. I'll be meeting with him later in the week in order to keep talking to him as well as others that he, and Krishnayya-garu, have thought of that I can talk to. So I'm off to a great start.

So yeah, that was my adventure yesterday. I'll have to see what today brings!

Talk to you soon,
Ashley

P.S. I'll upload pictures as soon as possible! Promise!