Visit to Germany

I visited my host family in Germany and went hiking in the forest.

Hungary

So far CEU seems great. Here are some pictures of my dorm room and the
main building which is right down town.

A Trip to the Old City and Pasta Dinner

Today I went with my language partner and two of his language partner
friends and their language partners to Bapu Bazar in the old city. One
of the Indian girls was looking for presents for her parents'
anniversary. It was a lot of fun.

Tonight we celebrated my friend Pandita's birthday by making pasta and
tomato sauce from scratch. She and another girl live down the street
and are friends with Zoë who is in my house. It was great to have them
over.

My House

We live in a hotel and here are some pictures of it:

Working at the dining room table

Fourth of July

We had a small 4th of July party where we had dinner on the roof and
lit small fireworks.

Saturday in Calcutta

I spent today in Calcutta with a friend from Brown. We met her best
friend at the mall for lunch. The mall was huge and very fancy. We had
a delicious meal. Then we went to a famous Kali temple in the south of
the city. We went from there to the National Library. After that we
drove to Princep's Ghat named after the famous cartographer who also
deciphered the Ashokan inscriptions. This is where the enormous bridge
in the picture is located. We went to an area where boats do river
tours on the Hooghly but were disappointed to find that they do not
run on weekends. Then we visited the area where I stayed last time I
was in Calcutta. Finally we went to Park Street where we had a nice
meal and then went to the south of the city to attend a small Buddhist
puja.
In Calcutta people go by nicknames rather than there real names. My
friend goes by Choti and her family's driver goes by the name Mithu.
He was a great driver and kept us out of a lot of near accidents. When
we were driving from the airport we saw another car rear-end a
rickshaw hard and then continue, plowing into a cycle rickshaw full of
bags of onions. Luckily no one was hurt.
I also booked my flight through an agency called Harsh Travels. Harsh
is Hindi for happiness/excitement.