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Can you spot the way to make it to this toilet?... Well, I cant!

Due to the fact that this is a blog I just thought to write some more about India and me, cause thats the purpose of the whole thing.

So far my bamboo work is doing good. However the biggest problem is to get, find, extract, make up any information at all. That can be tiring but its a good experience too. You got to know people, get to know the institutional system cause mostly you have to go somewhere, well I prefer the Forest Department *g* and somehow find someone who is in charge of bamboo :-) As I told you already even though English is spoken widely you might not make it through a government agency. Its kinda recommendable that you have someone with you who speaks the language of this particular State. Right now, I am into organizing my field trip for next week. Yeah - kinda excited about that. I will make my way to the forest, of course ;-, specifically to Shimoga which might be a 10 hours bus drive from Bangal. As I am doing a case study on a certain district I will have to collect detailed information on the field and talk to some suppliers, distributors, collectors and departments. Again, someone who likes to travel and is an employee of ATREE too might join me thus I can overcome the language difficulties. Thus I ll see how that works out.

By now the rainy season (monsoon) is getting going here. Well so far its raining at laest shortly a day but this will intensify over the next two months. I better get ready for that and look out for an umbrella then!

Some of you might know already that I was visiting Johanna's uncle last weekend. He is living in the so called metro-bangalore which might be around 25 km away from my place. Still, it took me 3 hours to get there mixing bus-riskhaw-pedes for traveling purposes. You ll see public transport really works out on the busy roads of Bangalore. However some of you might be curious about his profession as he is a priest. Specifically he is leading the Indian and greater Asian mission of his religious order. Here in Bangalore they have built up facilities for students and school kids. I have to say I was very impressed by the work he gets done here and by his presence itself. He might be my favorite priest by now :-) I am also going to visit him some more at the weekends to help out with teaching and entertaining the school kids there. Looking forward to that a lot!

Well you got a long weekend at home, lucky u. But I ll make the best out of mine and going to travel to Hyderabad, a city further up north, might be a 12 hours bus trip! Well I first was thinking going to a mountain resort, but buses were booked so we came up with free spots to Hyderabad :-) WE, means that I had to get hold of some traveler fellows due to security reasons. Its kinda not recommendable to travel alone, being female and Caucasian too. Thus two Spanish guys (you remember the security reasons :-) and me going to spend incredible 24 hours on a bus, to be able to spend like 1.5 days in Hyderabad. Sounds exciting :-)

Now I might get back to work. By the way I am going to post the solution of the picture on Monday. So far, take care and enjoy your weekends.
hugs.

Lisi