India Man Updates

Ryan made it to India (Bangalore) successfully!!! Yay!! He called me at last night after getting a couple emails from him telling me that he would call on Monday. So Sunday night, being Monday morning to him, was when I actually got the call. He says that the temperature is a lot like Florida and some juice he drank made him sick. He says the Indians are friendly and he is going to go to the market this weekend to buy me gifts (that's the whole purpose for the trip, right?). Something interesting about his hotel room is that there is not an inch of carpet in his whole room. I told him it was probably because carpet would insulate or something and the room would be warmer. His hotel is really nice and it seems like he already misses meat. He rides a cab to work with his co-worker. We're still getting used to the 12 hour or so time difference, especially when we were working out when he is going to call today. I had a final this morning at 7, so when he called last night, that would have been the evening on that same day. Weird.

I'm not the only one that has missed him already however. Due to lack of substitutes for the organ, guess who did a piano solo for sacrament meeting? Me! I got to go up and play prelude, opening, sacrament, closing, and postlude. I hope I pounded loud enough to make even the back row hear the piano. I'm sure Joe's presence and Jon and Rainah's really helped my confidence :) The tenants also missed having Ryan when Joe did a little tinkering with a fridge leak upstairs which caused a flooding from the ceiling in the apartment. Thankfully I wasn't dealing with that little surprise alone, and the tenants have been very flexible and accommodating with that change. We're praying for little water damage and zero odor. We'll see how that goes.

I have one final left as of right now today and am expecting most if not all A's in classes. I get a few days off between Winter and Spring semester, and then back to class. I have three classes left: Children's Literature (I'm looking forward to that one), Exercise Science for Elementary Teachers (we'll see how that one goes), and Statistics 221. I'm really kicking myself now for not taking the AP test Senior year, because I got an A in that class. Hopefully I will be successful in remembering stuff from 4 years ago and it doesn't ruin my GPA.

I enjoyed Killing Bunnies with Joe, Jon, and Rainah yesterday. I know Joe enjoyed at least reading the cards because they were so funny. It was also nice seeing Joe's possible home for the rest of his life. It has a lot of good potential and I don't think he'll ever lack for space.

That's a recent update in a short little summary. Ryan is planning on sending me his daily log of India so that I can post it. I guess the company there has reliable but expensive Internet where they pay by the gig or something. So I will be putting his stuff on my blog. Anyway, hopefully this entertains all of you and makes you all want to go to India or back to school at least :)