Finishing up the semester

After Thanksgiving the end of the semester came in a flash. Here are some of our experiences chronicled through just a few photos.

First, these two photos are of the INA market in Delhi. Here are a bunch of chickens waiting to be dinner. It was fascinating to see the assembly line, rather, the disassembly line as they were butchered. There mountainous piles of feet, heads, etc. and closest to the consumer--the meat.

This man is butchering goats. His technique is what impressed us; he has his ultra sharp knife in his foot and uses both of his hands to handle the meat and then slices parts of it using his dextrous toes. This is emblematic of a typical solution to a problem in India creative solutions to interesting needs--in this case, the butcher needed a third hand so he trained his foot for the purpose!

This is a particularly good pollution day lately when I took a run to the India Gate. This is Rajpath, one of the main roads of the area.

The week after Thanksgiving was the culmination of the middle school soccer season which I helped out with. The big finale was a trip to Chennai and a big soccer tournament. It was a great tournament and a great experience overall.  Also fun to see a new city.

 On the first morning before the tourney I took a jog with an obsession to see the Bay of Bengal.

What I encountered was an angry ocean and a potentially beautiful beach that was littered with trash and the morning motions of many Indians.

The run through the city was really cool. Chennai was a city on the move and in some areas it was quite different from Delhi with brightly painted walls, palm trees everywhere and a lot of humidity.