Thursday, August 10, 2006
it's been awhile
...since my last blog update. Days have settled into a basic routine, wake up, eat breakfast at the hotel, go to the office or meet up with one of my local colleagues in the field, go back to the hotel, exercise, eat dinner, work some more after dinner, and go to sleep. Rather mundane, so I haven't been really motivated to make fascinating blog entries.
I didn't get out to explore the city at all this past weekend. We worked on Saturday and Sunday was a very heavy rain day. Given the flooding and other weather issues, I decided to make it a stay-in day (plus I had a cold) and spent most of the day doing work stuff. (Well, I watched a movie too.)
The weekend before, however, I went to the Prince of Wales museum, which has a quite nice collection of classical Indian artwork and sculpture, as well as a random collection of western paintings, Chinese art and a natural history selection. There is an audio guide that is included with the price of admission (if you're paying the foreigner price), which was a rather good tour guide of the museum. The natural history section, however, was a rather sad collection of stuffed endangered animals (which I assume were killed before they actually were considered endangered).
I do wish I had more time to explore the city and perhaps even get to another part of the country, but I think that will have to wait for the next trip. (Although, I shouldn't say too much about not exploring the city, since work has me going all over the place and visiting neighborhoods no tourist ever sets foot in.)
I didn't get out to explore the city at all this past weekend. We worked on Saturday and Sunday was a very heavy rain day. Given the flooding and other weather issues, I decided to make it a stay-in day (plus I had a cold) and spent most of the day doing work stuff. (Well, I watched a movie too.)
The weekend before, however, I went to the Prince of Wales museum, which has a quite nice collection of classical Indian artwork and sculpture, as well as a random collection of western paintings, Chinese art and a natural history selection. There is an audio guide that is included with the price of admission (if you're paying the foreigner price), which was a rather good tour guide of the museum. The natural history section, however, was a rather sad collection of stuffed endangered animals (which I assume were killed before they actually were considered endangered).
I do wish I had more time to explore the city and perhaps even get to another part of the country, but I think that will have to wait for the next trip. (Although, I shouldn't say too much about not exploring the city, since work has me going all over the place and visiting neighborhoods no tourist ever sets foot in.)
# posted by Disease Cowgirl @ 7:22 AM 
