Free Time in Hubli

A new day a new plan. It has been a pretty good day. The ATM machines decided to be helpful for once after their long hiatus from customer service. So yes an entire day used just on one thing. A whole day.

The one up side is I get to see all the posters for the Thai movie “Ong Bak” but the title here in India is “Enter the NEW Dragon”. The posters boast about how there are no stunt doubles, wires or other special effects for the action in this movie. They also comment that it took seven years to make this movie. That fact that the movie is just being released here in 2005 amuses me since I saw the movie back in the summer of 2003. The only advantage of seeing it here is that it would be in English. I have only seen the original Thai version.

So now things are coming together. A train ticket, money for food, and now I just have to pack a few things and get on the never-ending train ride.

I mentioned before that I have been taking photos for some of the events at and around the monastery. Well one of them was at the school. Since everyone was together for this 10 year building anniversary they asked if we could do a group photo. After I got back and looked at the photos on my computer I was a little embarrassed that the photo didn’t come out as clear as I would have hoped. So I reluctantly showed the photos to the people at the school. It turns out they liked it. Enough that fifteen 8x12 glossy photos have been printed so far with a new list of students wanting more. Since I am here as a volunteer I don’t make any profit off this. Everything for this is done even-Steven, I make no money but I don’t wish to lose any either so everything is at cost. Therefore the number of prints they want doesn’t matter to me. I am just surprised how many copies they are getting. If there was some special guest or dignitary visiting then I could understand the need for so many copies. Another angle would be that some how this photo is as good or some how better then what they have had locally. This is possible but I think is would be sad if it is true.

I should be able to try another blog from Delhi…..see ya then.