school

so i started school yesterday. hindi is intense, and i'm hoping to get down the basics before i move for my internship, but we'll see how it goes. our family is helping us too and we hear it everywhere so i hope that will make it a little easier. its unusually cold here, and there is no heating, so i've been sleeping in my northface (yea, i'm so glad i have my northface, yes i own a northface, and yes it was a good investment) and 2 pairs of socks and 2 heavy blankets. its so hard to get out everymorning and bucket shower. i don't think i've shave my legs until its like 80 degrees out. i need the extra insulation. hehe. we've been learning a lot and a lot of my views have been challenged. it's crazy, today i was reading an assigned article about the servant/master relationship while baarti, my families servant cleaned my dishes. its such a weird feeling. and we've been learning a lot about women in indian culture, assanged marriages, child marriages, history, its crazy. indians take so much pride in their culture, and while some things don't seem to make sense from a western perspective, when you hear someone who's lived here their whole life talk about it you start to understand. i wish i could even begin to explain the differences between living here and in the US, but literally its like night and day. but i need to go back to class, breaks over. love you all, miss you.