Tuesday, September 7, 2010

Mmm... Clay.

September 6th

Today's accomplishments:
  1. I made a clay statue of Ganesh. He was pretty awesome if I do say so myself.
  2. I ate about a quart of rice at dinner.
  3. Actually, that's about it. But my host family was pretty impressed at the way I was packing down the foods tonight.
  4. Oh! I also shaved my legs. One of them at least. But it's kind of an accomplishment.

We had a workshop today and we learned how to make Ganesh idols for the upcoming festival. Working with my hands always tends to relax me, so this is coming at a pretty good time. I've missed clay and ceramic works since high school. The sense of accomplishment once your done is always so rewarding, and just basically playing in the mud is fun, too. On the downside, the purpose of these Ganesh idols is that once you make them, you return them to the waters they came from... i.e. we toss 'em in the river once they're done. Somehow, that doesn't seem like it's going to be nearly as therapeutic.

Today, I took yet another step towards realizing how much of a classics nerd I am. We have to write journal entries for our Contemporary India course, and tomorrow's entry is supposed to be about caste systems. We're basically just supposed to talk about what we're learning in class (caste systems) and what sort of relations we can find to it in our lives. So, without really considering the implications, I started writing about Plato's Republic. Apparently, when normal people get that sort of prompt, they don't immediately come up with a comparisons to a book from a couple thousand years ago.

1 comment:

  1. Yeah, but then again most normal people are dumb. It isn't as though it isn't a legitimate comparison.

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