In the morning myself and Alvin went to take a class at the American School of Bombay, a school for rich kids and the offspring of diplomats. Unsurprisingly, Imperial is keen to recruit from this school. We gave a talk about life on campus and about our research. Some of the staff were pretty interested. We couldn’t get a cab, so we took an auto rickshaw back to the hotel instead. Ben and Rahul went to the prestigious Dhirubai Ambani school next door and took a massive assembly where the bright kids had loads of questions.
When our IIT contact arrived, he thought that the shipping was still stuck in customs, to our absolute horror. We were on the verge of going all the way to the south of Mumbai and trying to bribe all the officials mercilessly in order to expedite the process, when it turned out that the shipping had arrived after all. We went to IIT to set up, which was slow going, particularly since it took the organisers several hours to locate useful drill bits. As the afternoon stretched into evening, we finished up everything except computer tests as monitors had not been provided yet. We were asked to wait for the monitors so we could test everything tonight, but after more than an hour’s assurance that they were ten minutes away we gave up and went back to the hotel.
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