Drawing Maps in Hyderabad

September 15th
Drawing Maps in Hyderabad

This morning we ate breakfast at the hotel. I was finally able to sample all of the different kinds of breakfast 'breads' that are common for breakfast in India. My favorite are still doshas, but the vadas (spicy small donuts) aren't bad either.

During breakfast, I was trying to take my miniature banana (the small bananas are much more common here) out of its peel and it went flying! Luckily I caught it, but all the servers and other customers were just staring! Haha well they saw the whole show anyway because it seems like everybody is always staring, foreigners in grungy farm clothes really aren't a common occurrence!

But 5 minutes after I had my incident Ameli 's banana also shot out of her banana peel and was gone!

The bananas in India are apparently alive.

We couldn't stop laughing it was so ridiculous.

As if we hadn't drawn enough attention to ourselves already.


After our entertaining morning, we met up with Rico and began to draw overlays and maps for the design. I was assigned to drawing the design for the huts that will be at Life University.




A bit hard to see!
But it was worth a try


After the work, Ameli needed to get a new battery for her mac, so we headed off into Hyderabad with a driver who couldn't speak English. He kept stopping at random places and trying to convince us that we were at the mac building, while every time it obviously wasn't the right place. Somehow we finally made it to the huge mac building. We waited for a while for her battery to be ready. Once we got it we drove back through the crazy traffic of cars, people, cows, dogs and motorcycles to the hotel. We had to hurriedly get some dinner before the business meeting with one of the main organizers for Life University.

We didn't have much time because our train to Hampi was leaving at 9pm, and we only had a couple of hours to spare and we didn't want to miss it.

But everything worked out and we made it to our train in time, and we didn't have seats next to the toilet this time!!! So exciting :)