This morning the US secretary General of Immigration visited Razena. It was a huge deal for the school, and they made sure to showcase their finest works, including our class. We were introduced to the Secretary General (who then later invited our class to the consulate on a later date) and then went around with him to visit several other classes that had prepared presentations for us. The Chennai photo journalist was also there and began staging shots and stopping presentations to make sure he got a good picture and I just about nearly smacked that man in the face. Does he have not ethical values when it comes to being a photographer? I know I am slightly bias here, but it really made me upset. Here these students were trying their best to present their work to us and he was directing where they stood, how their faces looked, I just wanted to take his camera and smash it.. ok, I am done venting. I needed that.
On a much lighter note, our class got to participate in welcoming the Sec. General, and when I say participate, I mean we arrived at the school yesterday and were asked to learn part of a dance routine with the girls, and part of another dance routine with the boys which we then performed on stage today. Not only did we dance, but we had to sing the national anthem. I kid you not. Needless to say we sounded like PLU sent a choir... still not sure how we pulled it off. We were also gifted with carved wooden elephants--they are absolutely beautiful. It was so hard to say goodbye to everyone, especially the girls we had gotten to know from yesterday. After many hugs and a ton of pictures later we were off to Hosur. It took us nearly 8 hours to travel 255 miles. The traffic here is unbelievably congested and the roads are often jammed, causing significant delay.
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