Success!

Work for the most part is 95% not amazing. But I had a piece of 5% that I wanted to share. A week and a half ago I wrote the concept note (a basic outline) of a human rights letter that the government of Rajasthan wants HEDCON to craft. I didn't really have any idea of what I was doing but read a couple other concept notes sent to me by my supervisor and did some internet research on other human rights newsletters. Today I checked in on the status of the concept note and found out that not only did my supervisor think it was good, it was already run by the someone in the government who approved it except for minor changes. They now go into much more detailed planning stage, but it was nice to know that something that I did actually counted for something. It is the first time that I have felt like that since coming to work here over four weeks ago. Now I'm working to edit a newsletter in Hindi English. I quote  "For example, when somebody ask us for some thing, we tell him/her 'Do I have Mines of it?'" I didn't actually know that we said that in english so the challenge is to keep the original intent and put into English English. My best edit was "We say of someone with great intelligence that they are a “mine of knowledge”. Their minds are filled with information and depth of insight." We'll see what the boss thinks.

Wednesday is probably the lowest part of the week. I've already been in the work week for 2 days, have 2 days left to go, and am feeling a bit tired, but mostly because of the success of the newsletter I'm feeling pretty good. Tonight I'm going to a Sufi concert and I'm looking forward to heading out to Udaipur this weekend. Oh and I went to a mall like place called the Big Bazaar and got awesome strechy pants that have improved my Wednesday a lot.

Storm clouds from last week. I couldn't blog without one picture!