Learning about India:
This month I went to India. It was both a good and bad experience, but one thing I enjoyed was learning about the way of life. I didn't only do this by going there, observing, and interacting with the people and places, but also by reading newspapers and books and watching TV. For instance: Me and my father visited the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. Everywhere we would drive there would be posters (political advertisements) for the red and black party (Since we don't read or understand Tamil, that's what we called them). Most of these posters would feature two people prominently: a bald guy with sun glasses, and a guy with a small afro and a mustache. When We asked oi tour guide about these posters he said the bald guy was the head minister of the state and the guy with the mustache was his son, that was set to replace him. "why does he always wear sunglasses?" I asked. "Because one eye is smaller than the other one". Later at the hotel restaurant the manager came over to our table. He told us that all the police men where hanging out in the lobby because the chief minister's son might be visiting the hotel. "Will we see him?" I excitedly asked. Probably not, he said, "politicians always change their minds at the last minute." By the time we read two articles in The Hindu about him, discussing a dam with the Kerala chief minister and meeting with Sonya Gandhi, we felt like we already knew him (and his son).
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