Just a brief note: my Hindi training has now resulted in me being able to form sentences, like यह पर्दा है (this is a curtain). Thought you'd want to know. However, I still don't know all the letters.
But, teacher training today was quite interesting.
Point of interest 1: We went to the museum at Banaras Hindu University (BHU) today. (The museum website is here: http://www.bhu.ac.in/kala/index_bkb.htm). Although we weren't allowed to take pictures inside the museum, they had some seriously cool things, like an incredible number of coins, really old jewelry, and statues. I plan on going back again, and talking to the curator (who is affiliated with NIRMAN in some sort of way) to find out more information. Some interesting curating notes: some pieces were organized not by time period, but by materials that they were made out of; and only the most rare, valuable, and shiny things are kept in a vault protected by a security guard.
Point of interest 2: The Western Way. In theater class, we discussed the lack of Western understanding for all things human. Basically, our teacher asserted that Westerners don't understand how emotions work, and that only Easterners understand spirituality. This seems, to a certain extent, a play on the traditional Western-Eastern Technology-Spirituality deal, but is also interesting as he explained how really no Westerners understand what is going on. He claimed that the expression "gut feeling" is merely coincidence, but who knows? For all interested parties, your center of emotions, gravity, etc. is located 2 inches below your navel.
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