13 Oct 2009
I slept reasonably well last night. Woke about 2am and again at 5am. Hopefully of to the office today. Ashutosh informed me that Thursday and Friday are an Indian Holiday called Ramali. So there will be only one day of the course before the students break for a long weekend.
I met one of the students today. Nice lad. Really good at drawing. A bit unsure of himself. We’ll se how he goes. Probably needs someone to believe in him.
Ashutosh is a very gracious person. He has made me feel very welcome. He showed me around his offices and classrooms. He is an extremely busy person. We he picked me up at around 9.30, he had already been to another of his offices somewhere else. He often starts work around 5am. In his office he has two phones and he carries two cellphones. Its not unusual for him to be talking on any two at one time.
The rooms we will be using are being painted. Ashutosh thinks they will be ready by the morning. The computer technician was in last night putting in the machines and cabling. In the CP room, the students will have a glass top table each with a light underneath it. Ashutosh spent some time thinking this over. The individual tables are quite small. A little bigger than what we would expect in Primary school. But he also has some longer versions. The computer room is a row of benches around the wall.
I got home around 7pm and crashed. Boy was I tired.