August 2007

Talk About My Life

August 16, 2007

original OMG I GET PHOTOGRAPHED and no longer PHOTOGRAPH MYSELF Walking, not the easiest thing to do with this on… I like the picture because NOTA BENE: no purse, no cellphone, makeup, various objects… ONLY a camera and my magnificent self! (Wrapped in a cloth, very simply.) Here they ask me questions like: “What is [...]

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Indian Independence Day

August 16, 2007

original August 15th, Indian Independence Day = NO LESSONS "You’d better get up if you want to wear a sari, it’ll take a while!" That’s how Roli, my roommate, woke me up this morning. And here I am with a black tube that covers my chest, a pair of trousers with an elastic waist, and [...]

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Nothing is Familiar

August 13, 2007

original Sunday morning. Fortunately, here we have weekends free. Both Saturday and Sunday! Two days in which we don’t have to worry about scaling Everest to reach a Hindi lesson. Yesterday I turned 18. I didn’t even realize it! My friends ordered pizza (school food is acceptable, but it’s always institutional cooking and you get [...]

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VirginMobileUSA – Missing Error Message

August 11, 2007

Every time I come to the US I have a cellphone problem. International roaming from Vodafone Italy works inconsistently, if at all, with US carriers. The first time I landed in Denver I spent a very frustrating half-hour trying to contact the friend who was coming to pick me up: the T-Mobile network that my [...]

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Almost 18

August 10, 2007

original No self-portrait. I’m losing even this vice! The long-awaited, prematurely celebrated 18th birthday arrives…finally… tomorrow! Since no one will call me, I will content myself with birthday wishes via fotolog!

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Welcome to Mussoorie

August 10, 2007

original PART 4 Fortunately, I’m not the only one, Megan from Los Angeles is in the same situation, though I’m worse off than she. We meet the head of Woodstock’s elementary school, in a car with her daughter. She offers us a ride. When we arrived at her house she was showing us the path [...]

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Delhi

August 10, 2007

original PART 2 In the room of that Julia who today (Aug 4, 2007) is 17 years old and will be my classmate. Continuing the story of the trip: We spent a day in New Delhi. Because very few of us, among them me, had rupees, and the banks refused to change our dollars, most [...]

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What Happened at Heathrow

August 10, 2007

original PART 1 You feel welcomed to India when you have spent the day vomiting and trying to find a position in which it doesn’t feel as if someone is cutting you open from the inside and pouring rock salt on the wound. Just so: my first day of Himalayan life was a day of [...]

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First Photos from India

August 7, 2007

original I had written one of my TOO BEAUTIFUL poems. Except that: I can’t connect my laptop to the Internet I have to transfer everything on a USB key this computer in the library dating back to 1920 doesn’t recognize what I’ve written? it all came out YYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! -oof The photos are nice, though! I’m [...]

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Security in a Single Bag?

August 6, 2007

Even if you have not travelled through the UK recently, you may have heard of the annoying new regulation that passengers going through airport security there may have only one bag. Security people and signs remind you of this multiple times en route to the scanners. For me, this means stuffing the small purse in [...]

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British Airways Online Check-in

August 5, 2007

I love online check-in, where I can select the seat I want and take care of some formalities before I ever get to the airport. So I checked in online for my British Airways flight to Denver, but didn’t have an easy way (at my dad’s house) to print the boarding card. The site assured [...]

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ATM Irritations

August 4, 2007

I recently had occasion to withdraw money from my US bank account using an Italian ATM. I was presented with a choice of amounts ranging from 10 to 250 euros, plus one item marked “Other Amount.” I chose that one then, as prompted, entered the desired amount (500). I got a message “Amount too large, [...]

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The Twitter Diaries: July, 2007

August 1, 2007

I don’t have precise dates on these; something goes wrong in Google Reader’s interpretation of Twitter’s RSS feed. my head hurts so bad I could cry Occasionally, I get something that is actually identifiable as a migraine. Not too surprising given the stress I was going through at the time. @pm10 spero che sia anche [...]

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