Today, my aai made me an espresso milkshake.

Has anyone seen the movie Over the Hedge? It has Avril Lavigne in it as a baby possum. Anyway, there's a squirrel. And squirrels are generally depicted as hyperactive and energetic, right? Well, in the movie, at the end, he gets caffeine... and there's a scene where he's shown casually strolling through a yard, and the laser system is slowly slowly slowly being activated and the lasers are just hardly moving at all because his caffeine-world is just moving so fast.

Today, that was me.

We made a trek into town today. We present our independent study projects in a week, and we all have some serious work to do on them, so the Paud Road kids all got together and rickshawed to an internet cafe to get some research done. Today, the internet cafe was experience internet difficulties, so we couldn't do anything.

In order to make the trip worth it, we went shopping. I now have more presents for people back home. Yay.

Last Thursday, we took a test in our political science class. This Thursday we got it back. Three people got D's. Everyone else failed. Most of our answers paralleled what we read in the class readings. When we brought this up, our teacher told us that he disagreed with a lot of the readings (ones that he assigned). Other answers paralleled what he said in class. When we mentioned that, he said we should know more than just what he talks about in class... like in the readings. Some questions were covered neither in our class lectures nor in our readings... some questions were covered in both lectures and readings... with different answers. I tend to think that when an entire class fails, it says more about the teacher than the students. The highest grade in the class went to the boy who missed two weeks of class due to Dengue fever and didn't read any of the outside reading. He is, however, a South Asian Studies major at his college, and he's doing an independent study on the politics of language.

Our program director, Sucheta, said that we should pretty much disregard all grades in that class from now on because she would be deciding our grades at the end... and they won't be failing ones.