Chennai

So Chennai is now my new home for the next 4 to 8 weeks. It's not too bad here, better than I though. The campus isn't as big as the one in Mysore but it does have a gym and a pool. It is really hot here though, people were right on about that bit of advice. I haven't done too much exploring outside of campus yet, but from what I've read online it looks promising. We're in the guest houses so they're a lot nicer than the dorms we were in back in Mysore. I like it because it's bigger and nicer but I just found out I could get a roommate! People usually stay in the guesthouses for short periods of time, but I'll be here for at least a month. So I'll probably be seeing people go in and out of here. I can't really complain about having a roommate, it's just how things are done, that's why there's two beds in the room.

Also, I accidentally blew out my speakers when I plugged them in :-(. I'm pretty upset about that one. The one constant thing I had was my music and now I lost the only decent way I had of listening to them! I do have my laptop speakers and what not but they're obviously not as good as the external speakers. On the brighter side I guess it's one less thing to carry back home to the US.

Last night I was watching t.v., VH1 to be specific, and they were playing a bunch of new rap music videos. I realized something really strange about listening to rap music in India though. Back home a majority of rap music glorifies poverty and the ghetto way of life. Here, only the people with a certain amount of money can listen to and enjoy rap music. Only the people with money are the ones "cool enough" to be able to watch VH1 and MTV and listen to rap.

Well, I'm going to try and fix up my iPode as well, it stopped working in the middle. The internet here is great, it's unrestricted so all my applications actually work.