Sunday, June 29, 2008

The Last Day Before I Leave

Tomorrow I fly out to Austin, Texas for pre-departure orientation. I then fly out on July 03. I have been doing a lot of reading and last minute preparations. Last night after a day of fixing fences and moving animals around, I pulled out a chair and watched the sun set. I don't stop and watch the sun set often enough. I then went in and read. The current article I am reading is how American schools interpret Islam through the review of American text books. It has been an interesting read as I am constantly reading and reviewing science textbooks in my job, but I have never picked up a history or religious studies text book to review. Well I am off to mow the lawn and move my sprinklers.

Tuesday, June 24, 2008

Itinerary

Last week I received three books in the mail and three article reprints. I have been doing a lot of reading. I fly out to Austin, Texas for a day and a half of Pre-Departure Orientation. We then fly out on July 3rd to Delhi as a group. Our trip there is Austin, Texas to Dulles Airport in Washington DC and then to Frankfurt and on to Dehi. I am a little nervous as I tried getting a seat assignment and they would not give me one until I checked in. It sounds like an over booked flight to me. We are in New Delhi, Delhi, Kolkata, Hyderabad, Chennai, Pune, Ahmedabad, Jaipur, Agra, and back to Delhi.

Thursday, June 19, 2008

Setting Up My Blog

Today I finally got around to setting up my blog. I have been so busy with the end of the school year and my daughters graduation that I haven't really thought much about my India trip. I started reading "Holy Cow" by Sarah Macdonald. It is an interesting read so far in the first 25 pages.



I plan on sending out my blog address tomorrow and hope to get people interested. I purchased a small camera today to take photos that hopefully will be easy to load into my blog. As usual its already 11:30 at night and I still have lots to do.