Tuesday, November 29, 2005

la spagetada

we celebrated francy´s birthday with a spagetada, a sicilian spaghetti dinner...

...and ofcourse sangrilla.

dreams and nostalgia

last night i dreamt of school, Vidyaranya. Venkatesh, Nikhil, Chaitanya, Nandini and me were playing volleyball. we had all forgotten how to play and were struggling to hit the ball in the right direction. funny dream coz i don´t really remember if there was a concrete plot at all.

and the other day i was longing to go to the lab in down campus. i was remembering how swati and i used to go on the bike whether summer or winter. and the 'chais' there. and of course minu bakshi ma´am. i miss it all.

Tuesday, November 22, 2005

60 days and still going strong

i would like to send my heartiest greetings and wishes to appa!

60 days in the u.s and still going strong inspite of everything...

keep it up! just another 240 days to go!

exhaustion

yes, that´s what i´ve been feeling the past few days. don´t know why. we´re up to our necks with work. morning, classes; afternoon, we go all the way to madrid to observe classes; evening, night, we come back to alcalá dead.

yesterday i had my session of micro-teaching. each one of us has to give a half an hour session and later during macro-teaching, one hour sessions. my micro-teaching was disastrous. ofcourse the egoist that i am, i don´t blame myself. yesterday out of 22 students only 10 decided to show up. i had to replan both the activities that i wanted to do. therefore i got all nervous. in the end the professor and my classmate thought it was fine but i´ve had better days.

the days we don´t have to go to madrid for the observation we stay back at the institute to plan our micro and macro sessions. i´m fed up. i have absolutely no energy left.

and i´m so sick of the food here that i made some spicy chole and rice yesterday. realized i´m not such a bad cook after all.

Thursday, November 03, 2005

enamorada...in love

my new love...segovia...preciosa.

the roman aquaduct against the blue sky is a feeling i just can´t describe.
the entire city, the jewish quarter, the palace, the churches... (sigh)

i need to go back... atleast to take photos.
only a fool like me could have forgotten to take batteries for the camera.
so until my friend sends me the photos you won´t be able to experience segovia.