July 18, 2010 Orientation Day 1

We started orientation around 9:30 which included getting to know the fellow students, the people in charge, some of our professors. After about 2 hrs of that we go into groups of 2, there are 11 of us here so far, and each group had a tour guide. For each tour we went to a historical monument and then to a bazaar to shop and get lunch. On my tour me and Herald went to Gandhi Smriti, where Gandhiji spent the last 144 days of his life and where he was assassinated. It was a home which they turned it into a museum about Gandhji and India's independence. I enjoyed it a lot and as an Indian it was moving to be where he was. After that me, Herald and our tour guide took us to a bazaar, but to get there we took the metro! Which is only three years old, and for a Sunday it wasn't busy, but our tour guide said it gets busy on the week day. At the bazaar we looked around and ate delicious food. Finally, we went to the India Gate which is a memorial for the 90,000 Indian soldiers during World War I and the Afghan Wars. After dinner we relaxed because our Hindi classes start at 8:15am for three hours!