At last! Pictures and video!

<--- June 19th, roughly 5:00 am. We have just arrived. This is me (obviously) in our living room/lobby. It's a living room when we're the only ones here, but we are sharing this space with 3 other people, including one Dutch guy, whose been assigned with the task of making autorickshaws more environmentally-friendly. His name is Elmar.

Aaron in our living room/lobby. --->
Our door is the one to the right of the book cupboard. Elmar's is the door next to ours. The water jug is almost always filled with cold, fresh water, which saves us time on filtering and refrigerating our own water. That is inner city luxury for you.

<--- This is me in a borrowed salwar outside of the office. The autorickshaw behind me was an actual rickshaw used in one of the CEMS events. I would guess that the temperature that day was about 101 degrees, at least.

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Our bedroom.

There is somebody who will change our bed sheets every Tuesday and empty our trash daily. It's something we are going to have to get used to. Since Aaron and I are Americans, it is almost inherently part of our social status to have this service. The black alcove in the wall is for a shrine. We will have one set up soon.

<--- The other side of our bedroom. Just a bed and our closet is all our bedroom consists of. Very modest, yet quite comfortable and very cute.

Our bathroom. --->

It's quite spacious and thankfully, entirely tile. It also doubles as a sauna.

<--- Outside our apartment on our way to buy a cola and some mango drink.

Me outside our apartment in some of my new clothes. Behind me is the Food Corporation of India, which stores food. --->

<--- A huge truck trying to make its way down the street in front of the office. Undoubtedly, the driver received a huge number of honks from other traffic before getting to this road.

T.V. Road --->

This is the road of our actual address and there in the middle of the road are some local kids playing cricket.

<--- What we've noticed to be fairly typical: extremely run-down or destroyed establishments next to newly built or renovated residences. It nicely falls in to India's theme of opposite extremes living side-by-side. It's like how Gregory David Roberts describes the World Trade Centres next to the slum in "Shantaram." P.S. If you have not read that book, buy it immediately and read it.

June 23rd. The purple-ish evening sky filled with birds. I recognize the crow around here, but the coos and caws of most of the birds are very unfamiliar. --->

<--- Ahem. Read carefully. It's hilarious.

The outside of our apartment/office. --->

It took a good 2 hours to post just those pictures, so I think to save time, I might upload a lot of other pictures to Facebook and provide the link here. We'll see.

Anyway, it's time for dinner. I think we're going to have chicken sandwiches, which sounds very American except that the chicken is breaded in a kind of curry. Delicious! I hope you've enjoyed India through our eyes so far. More to come...