Happy Ganpati!

This week’s count:
Tarot card reading: 1
Fellow McGill graduates of 2005 in Bombay: 3
Unidentified blood trail leading up the steps to my office: 1
Overnight work retreats on beach resort: 1
Indians who can swim: none
Women who "swim" fully clothed: All
Mobile phone: 0
Law school applications to be completed: 5
Law school applications completed: 0

The 10-day Ganpati festival, which centres around the Hindu god with an elephant head symbolizing wisdom, began on Wednesday. On the first day, an idol of Ganesh is brought into the home with a procession of singing, dancing, and firecrackers in the streets. I spent my one day holiday meeting up with other expats in the Bombay area, some are here for only 2 months while others have been here for 4 years, a really fun crowd nonetheless. I attended a pooja, a religious ceremony where I met 2 girls who actually lived in McConnell when I was in Gardner, what a small world! I’ve been wanting to take Hindi classes but couldn’t find a place that offered them, but through the expat network, I will be joining a group of Canadian/American kids with their private Hindi instructor. Well this Sunday I am taking a day trip to Pune, which is a rapidly developing city a few hours outside Bombay. There are some nice temples which I’m hoping to check out, and I’m looking forward to get away from the heat and humidity of Bombay in monsoon season.
Also, I’m currently working on Law School applications – if anyone reading this is in the same process, drop me an email, I have this feeling that I’ll forget to do something on ouac or lsdas or whatever and my application won’t go through……..