It has been more than a month since i have been in atlanta, and the experience has been rewarding to say the least. While a major part of the weekday-day passes in the lab, its predominant blandness is more than compensated by the phenomenal weekends. Yes, thats a change i would like to see in life back home too, where a weekday is pretty much the same as a weekend, except that we do'nt wash clothes [i do'nt call it laundry because it sounds so American] on the former [:)].
An FT always comes with a purpose (for non kgp people, an FT means foreign training). Of the hundred or so kgpians who embark on these profitable(literally!!) errands every year, the diversity of expectations deserves a mention here. As far as i am concerned, my information has been limited to this state of Georgia, and the only worthy examples i can quote are 4 co-kgpians with me on this trip, along with yours truly.
These descriptions are entirely subjective, since i am the only one contributing. For readers who have got a mention here, the text below is entirely without malice, and I hope not to be sued for that. Sorry for the handicap to non-kgpians in understanding parts of the following, but i have tried to keep these descriptions as real as possible.
1. JASSI: He was and is (and will probably remain) the hermit of the gang. His aims and expectations from the trip are:
- getting himself as close as possible to being a professor in mechanical engineering.
- improving his culinary skills,much to the relief of the rest of us.
-maintaining a 'higher than normal' thermostat when it comes to defining 'cool weather' and 'cold beverages'. suspected source: a common cold attack in 2004. visible effects: abstinence from any fluids below body temperature
-maintaining the severe lack of tempo from all sporting activities, even if it costs less than $1 a day.
useful tags: staple food, rice, microwaved juice, khana kya banega, alkesh jee, lab janaa hai, usko chhod kar koi bhi restaurant,
to be continued..........
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