As of last Monday, we have officially completed the two projects for Bihar which were ECFC and TIM. For the rest of the week the other interns focused on completing the projects from Pune. Huberth (the indian architect), Graham (the engineer on staff) and myself went to do a one time consultation on Tuesday. A woman from the States planned on starting up an agricultural farm in the Himalayan mountains which concentrates on organic farming and other "green" eco methods. We took a 2-3 hour drive up and around the mountain to where her site was located and found out that construction had already begun. Long story short, we analyzed the site, gave suggestions for the construction and went back home to write up the report and send out suggestions from both architectural and engineering perspectives with regards to what she wants to do with the site. Overall it was an interesting experience and it was fun to go on a day trip and see other aspects of eMi2.
As for the rest of the month that I missed the opportunity to record on the blog. For about 2-3 weeks of that month we had very unstable power supply and then for 2 weeks we didn't have internet connections at all and any reports or emails that were mandatory were sent through tethering with smart phone connections. All of this was quite bearable and not much of an issue to me really. We got our work done and then enjoyed the sun or other activities after work and little did we know that the situation would get tougher. So usually around this time, water supply becomes an issue. One day we woke up, wanted to brush our teeth and found that there wasn't any water. We then decided to get some water from the drinking tank and use that instead, all to find that no water was to be found. All of a sudden I realized how spoiled we are to have water all the time and I thought to myself, all the complaining we've been doing up until this day was kind of dumb. We would complain that there was no electricity and no internet or nothing to do, but I would gladly trade all of that for accessible flowing water. The month was extremely short and in the end we didn't even realize that a whole month had already passed.
For the next few weeks we have a trek planned out in the Himilayan mountains. We'll be driving a bit higher up in elevation then when the car can't go any further we'll park and take our gear for a 16km hike further up. We'll camp out and then do day hikes from the main campsite. All the interns will be going, the Franks family including 3 kids and the Indian architect from the office. The trek will end on the 11th and then we will start on our intern holiday of traveling and seeing the rest of india. Unfortunately it's the hottest time to be traveling but since we're already here, we decided to man up and take the heat, literally. For the most part, we were able to find a/c train rides but there was one where we could not avoid and that will be going from the Taj Mahal, Agra to Delhi at 2:30pm which is the hottest time of the day. I'm not particularly looking forward to that train ride but I figured it'll be a great experience nonetheless.
Looking forward to seeing you all again soon! Hope you are doing well.
- Jay
As for the rest of the month that I missed the opportunity to record on the blog. For about 2-3 weeks of that month we had very unstable power supply and then for 2 weeks we didn't have internet connections at all and any reports or emails that were mandatory were sent through tethering with smart phone connections. All of this was quite bearable and not much of an issue to me really. We got our work done and then enjoyed the sun or other activities after work and little did we know that the situation would get tougher. So usually around this time, water supply becomes an issue. One day we woke up, wanted to brush our teeth and found that there wasn't any water. We then decided to get some water from the drinking tank and use that instead, all to find that no water was to be found. All of a sudden I realized how spoiled we are to have water all the time and I thought to myself, all the complaining we've been doing up until this day was kind of dumb. We would complain that there was no electricity and no internet or nothing to do, but I would gladly trade all of that for accessible flowing water. The month was extremely short and in the end we didn't even realize that a whole month had already passed.
For the next few weeks we have a trek planned out in the Himilayan mountains. We'll be driving a bit higher up in elevation then when the car can't go any further we'll park and take our gear for a 16km hike further up. We'll camp out and then do day hikes from the main campsite. All the interns will be going, the Franks family including 3 kids and the Indian architect from the office. The trek will end on the 11th and then we will start on our intern holiday of traveling and seeing the rest of india. Unfortunately it's the hottest time to be traveling but since we're already here, we decided to man up and take the heat, literally. For the most part, we were able to find a/c train rides but there was one where we could not avoid and that will be going from the Taj Mahal, Agra to Delhi at 2:30pm which is the hottest time of the day. I'm not particularly looking forward to that train ride but I figured it'll be a great experience nonetheless.
Looking forward to seeing you all again soon! Hope you are doing well.
- Jay
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