Creative Essay: 11/27/31

This is my second day in India. Today morning, I received an e-mail explaining that the seminar I came to attend is going be postponed from 12/01 to 12/03. I't because the world climates are terribly unpredictable that it messed up the whole airline today that many people won't be able to attend the seminar at the time. I was actually happy to receive the mail (sorry for those who got damaged by the hurricane that occurred simultaneously) as it meant that I will have more free time in this country.

It's been a while to attend a seminar that required people to actually gather. I preferred offline seminar but I was really busy these days as my research was coming to the end, and the students asked me a lot of questions as it was near the final exam. So I was only able to attend online. However, this seminar was really important that I even canceled my other schedules to attend. Thank God that final was over as I wouldn't be able to reject my students. I was planning to reveal my research conclusions to the world through this seminar as the other people attending helped my project by answering my questions that I had and sharing some of their opinions. Therefore, I wanted to show them some respect by making them the first one to see my full outcome.

Yesterday, I walked around various famous places, taking pictures and drawing croquis' as it is my hobby. I should have been preparing for the presentation today, but the seminar has been postponed, so I decided to expand my leisure. I planned to visit where my educational volunteer organization is working. I was always sorry to order them and help them from distance, so I thought that this was a great chance. So I went to the head office of India branch. They greeted me warmly. After short talk about the current situation of the organization, I asked them if I could participate in today's volunteer, and got approved.

Even though the cities of India has been developed, the countries remained the same. I went to a small school where the organization worked. I brought some snacks for the children, and while they were eating, I asked how they were doing. Even in hard situations, they looked very bright, so I was relieved. I took pictures with them. The master of India branch told me that the number of Indian student volunteer was even lower than the number of students from other country. So we opened up a meeting, and concluded that the advertisement of our organization was too weak. And we planned to make posters to hang on 15 universities.

I left the further planning to the branch, and came back to the hotel to eat dinner. As southern India was summer in these days, it was still bright. I checked my e-mail and there was a new e-mail saying that the seminar will be held on 12/05. It didn't really mattered to me as I had nothing until my birthday, which is 12/20. I guess I saved some more days. Maybe I'll be able to help putting the posters in universities tomorrow.