Posts Tagged ‘Pune’

Week 2 in Pune, India

Saturday, November 8th, 2008

I think this post will just be bullet points of things I have seen, done, noticed, experienced, etc:

  • Air Pollution
  • Great Food
  • Nice People
  • People beg at intersections and on the street
  • Animals walking in the street
  • Slums with Dish TV
  • Bicycles, Motorcycles, Rickshaws, Cars, and Trucks
  • Women leaving an infant and young child on the sidewalk alone to go look for food
  • Movies have intermissions (a good idea)
  • People have drivers
  • The poor will always be poor
  • Electricity Brown Outs
  • Cricket (the sport)
  • Curry
  • BO (Not as bad as I expected)
  • Temples
  • History
  • Multiple Languages
  • A former British Colony
  • Cheap
  • Crowded
  • A lot of people doing nothing (similar to Japan)
  • Efficient
  • Old
  • No public affection (kissing, etc)
  • Old Fashion
  • Not thinking out of the box
  • Lots of dancing and singing in movies
  • Lots of dancers in music videos
  • Many mobile phone commercials
  • Button up shirts and few T-Shirts
  • Difficult to understand accents
  • A Nuclear Power
  • Dirty water
  • Religion
  • Philosophy

I think that’s all for now.
***Disclaimer:  These are my opinions and observations. I am not saying that these things are good or bad. Every country has their issues and I could make a similar list for the USA.