India

I've been in India for roughly 12 hours. For those of you who don't know me, or what I'm doing in India, I took a class this past spring on the Political Economy of Energy in India that includes this two-week trip. Oh, and I only paid $500, including airfare. Oh, and we get more than $500 back in spending money during the trip. It's part of my self-designed major: really cool classes. This morning we had 3 meetings with local bigwigs here in Mumbai, and tomorrow we start the first in our succession of site visits, going to what will soon be the largest oil refinery in the world in Gujarat, near the Pakistani border. Just as Musharraf seems to be on his last legs...

Anyway, its hot, I can't eat the food, and the majority of the city is as bad as any Cape Town township. In other words, I love it here!

Until next time...