Are We Having Fun Yet?

Today became quite possibly the worst weather day I have ever experienced in india. Like close your eyes and picture a monsoon. And then stick me right in the middle of it. Why was I in the middle of it, you ask? Because I am a “Fun Administrator” for the American students that are coming this week; Sid and I have created 2 weekend modules of fun around Bangalore for every Friday and Saturday that the students are available, and we will each be leading a different module depending on the interests of the students. Which is how we found ourselves on foot and motorbike trekking through the city in the midst of a monsoon, checking out museums, restaurants, cafés and clubs so that we could accurately map out our forced fun. The theme of the day seemed to be, “Are we having fun yet?” and from time to time one of us would take on the persona of a whiny American college student, wet and cold and not impressed by our ideas of fun. One of our modules, for example, includes the Karnataka State Aquarium, which contains two floors of fish tanks. Many tanks are repeats. One tank is from Texas. Doesn’t sound thrilling, but we found it pretty entertaining. Hopefully they do too J We are also hoping that they get as exhausted by the city as we do: about halfway through our list, we found ourselves at an ice cream shop unable to move or to hold coherent conversation, counting all the reasons why we shouldn’t finish our investigating that day and even convincing ourselves to scratch one area of town altogether. Haha – don’t we sound like fun?