A nice week

We had a very fun houseguest this week, Udai, who is a friend of my friend Joyojeet from Berkeley. (Udai and Joyojeet worked together on a research project for Microsoft in which they designed computers with multiple mice to be used for collaborative learning in elementary school classrooms in developing countries.) Udai, who is from Delhi but was living in Bangalore, is traveling around the world -- he started in London and he's planning to travel through the Americas and into Asia. He got in last Sunday, just in time for our liberation seder, which I will write about in another post, and left yesterday for Easter Island. We watched Hindi film clips on Youtube, had a "Leaving on a Jetplane" sing-a-long and talked about our favorite places to travel in India. Udai was dying for Indian food (after months of the relative bland South American diet) and we managed to find a great Indian restaurant nearby (I was thrilled). Altogether, it was a cozy week -- my friends kept popping by and it seemed like, in addition to Vero and Udai, Lauren or Marcelo or Zach or Genaro was always around. Actually, it felt like being back in Berkeley, like home.


Udai and Vero at my apartment before their jam session.