Pakistan - Day 2
Day 2… My first full day. I ended up sleeping until noon today which is not something I'm so used to, felt like I'd wasted so much time but to my discovery pretty much everyone else had just woken up or was still sleeping! I took a nice cold shower which in this heat feels so wonderful!
We went for a proper Pakistani lunch somewhere in town followed by getting a SIM card for my phone. Apparently it only costs about 1-2p (GPB)/minute to call the US and UK land line phones and a bit more to Denmark, I'll see if I can take advantage of that, it did cause some frustration trying to figure out how to make that work (and about £4 worth of calling time making the mistake of not calling the cheap way).
On the way back from town we were struck by a monsoon! With in minutes the streets went from dry to mini rivers. We took a rickshaw that was covered but still managed to get pretty wet from the water splashing up from the ground.
A while after getting back to campus I went with a new friend to his politics course. Todays discussion was on what a democracy is. I had a hard time keeping my mouth shut but it was really interesting to hear. It was blatantly obvious that a lot of people hadn't done their reading/prep for the class but it was interesting all the same. They did manage to get it pretty spot on though its amazing how much irrelevant information was covered as well. It seems a lot of the students were a bit afraid of the prof as well (I think she comes off as very intimidating for them). What an experience though, I certainly hope to be going along to a couple more classes.
This evening has been a lot of chillaxing getting to know some of the people here at the university. It's hot hot hot still but outside it's almost comfortable, all that's really needed is a bit of a breeze.
Learnings of the day: