Incredible !ndia | Day 3

Had breakfast, then the day started with a talk on the philosophy of City Montessori School by Mr Jagdish Ghandi. The philosophy begins to feel like some kind of cult. They believe that "religion is one" and that the various religions are different manifestations of a single god.

And so they have this "prayer" which they invented. Which doesn't seem to refer to any standard religion. In fact, it seems they are trying to invent their own religion/cult. And did I mention Jagdish Ghandi is long-winded?

This chart describes the school philosophy, note the size of the chart, and the size of the text. When they gave out printed brochures of it, they had to print on A3 paper because it would be unreadable otherwise.


Anyway, Mr Jagdish Ghandi was terribly boring, and we were all very happy to move on to the next part, where the people lighted the lamp.....


Then a talk on "Concepts of Biotechnology" By Prof. D. Balasubramanian. It was a good talk for an introduction on biotechnology.

Then me and Tong Nhat Duong had to leave for our poster making competition, and Guo Yang and Mervyn had to go for the written round of the quiz, followed by Guo Yang's debate.

I was extremely annoyed with them about the poster competition, because they said that no pasting of cutouts was allowed, and neither was having reference pictures to draw from, rules that were never stated in print anywhere, nor made known verbally before the competition began.

My entry (materials used: 2 felt tip markers).....


Made it back to the auditorium just in time to see Guo Yang debate. By the end of the day, Guo Yang had this fan club of people who thought that he had been extremely charming during the debate XD He was the only debater that smiled and did not start yelling into the microphone.....


We had lunch after the debates, and decided to pon the next talk since we were tired of trying to decipher what the speakers were trying to say because of their really thick accent. And the fact that it is considered good public speaking skills in India to yell into the microphone.

Anyway, later on Daniel and Nicholas went to present the website. Boy were we relieved that it could run on their ancient computers :)

There was tea and coffee after the website presentation, but both were so sweet that one only tasted the sugar and not the tea leaves or caffeine. It seems this is the way these beverages are made here.

Mervyn was very sad about the quiz round :( Cos Anmol said that Mervyn and Guo Yang got into the next round of the quiz. But they didn't, cos Anmol misheard. So he kinda got his hopes up for nothing :(

Dinner was quite an epic disaster because they were so behind time that the buses which were supposed to take us to another City Montessori School campus for dinner all left, so most of the teams had dinner in their rooms, eating the food that they brought along.