It has been two months since I came to US. With the high speed internet of upto 15 Mbps available at home, I thought I could blog much more than I normally do but it has been never evident in my blog statistics so far. Unlike the coursework back in India, assignments, here in US, really add to the grades and you have to face a situation that you must do it. With the mid-terms almost over already, I can see that my first semester has already started moving towards the end.
The leaves have started turning yellow and red and the mellowness and the beauty of the fall is visible clearly. The lawns and the pathways remind me much about my undergraduate college SSN College of Engineering. It is only a matter of the days when the greens become whites.
The probability of me being idle is being more than me being involved in coursework and assignments. The remaining time is being spent on net and watching videos and listening to music that I heard in the past like 10 years ago. I even chose to listen to music which I used to listen when I was like 6 or 7 years old.
I have improved with cooking the traditional South Indian recipes like Sambhar and vegetables curry although I don’t get much chances during a week. One of the instant coffee roasted beans sold here smelt so good that it didn’t taste as good as it smelt but you would love it for the smell and the taste is also good. ;)
The climate is getting colder and the lowest it has reached when I was awake is 5 degrees Celsius so far. The chillness wouldn’t have been an issue if you hadn’t been whipped with a chilled wind topped up with rains. Two days of 5 to 10 degrees in the Celsius scale and 18 degrees felt so hot. I believe that I am getting adapted to the climate.
When the monsoons become torrential, when the coolness becomes so hot, when the greens change colors, when the neglected becomes a duty, you would know that you are not here. The essence, the flavor, the aroma, the colors that makes you travel farther than light are the gates to your cognitive real world and you would then know that you are still here.
