education
all kinds of studies or learning ventures
By bluerasberry on 2008-04-12
Seattle has a population of about 580,000. For the Gay Pride festival last summer the recorded attendance was 200,000 with 100,000 from out of town. I know that the organizers always inflate these numbers but still it means that a lot of people are involved in this. Nandan and I are getting more serious about […]
Posted in education, festival, presentation, rights, Seattle | Tagged gay rights, hijra, HIV project, NGO, Sanjeevani Booti
By bluerasberry on 2008-02-12
Nandan and I talk about Sanjeevani Booti continuously. This is the name for the HIV NGO which we are founding. The website is up. Nandan did not know what AIDS was before, and now he knows the basics. He has probed the community for similar organizations and we know what exists. He has talked with […]
Posted in education, HIV, India, legal, non-profit, research, rights, Seattle, work | Tagged AIDS, license, megacorp, Mehdiganj, NGO, PSA, Sanjeevani Booti, survey, tea, tourism, Varanasi
By bluerasberry on 2008-01-25
Yesterday I went to Lifelong AIDS Alliance to meet with their director of marketing, Asia Rau. I normally do not pay too much attention to any person’s race but I did notice that this girl did not look ethnically Asian. Lifelong has about a hundred paid staff members and goes through about sixteen million dollars […]
Posted in education, HIV, non-profit, Seattle | Tagged advertising, AIDS, logistics, money
By bluerasberry on 2008-01-20
I did great on my GRE. I made 740 on the comprehension section (top 1%), 720 on the math (top 23%), and 5.5 on the writing (top 12%). I am still anxious about applying for and getting in school. My grades in college were lackluster. I do not have any regrets about my coursework, because […]
Posted in animal, education | Tagged grades, pudu, test, university, zoo
By bluerasberry on 2007-12-09
Last Tuesday I met with Michael Ninberg at the Hepatitis Education Project in the Maritime Building on Western between Madison and Marion. We talked for about two hours about hepatitis and public health and I think he will be a good resource in the future. I want to get all three websites up before the […]
Posted in drug, education, HIV, presentation, research, Seattle | Tagged AIDS, Benares, clinical trial, education center, hepatitis, HIV, vaccine
By bluerasberry on 2007-05-13
Today in my Hindi copy I wrote sentences in unusual formats like future perfect continuous (“…will have been going”) because I wanted to be comfortable with the grammar. I continually want more and more vocabulary and my memory cannot meet my needs at the rate which would satisfy me. Tonight I go to Lucknow with […]
Posted in education, India, religion | Tagged astrology, Hindi, Hinduism
By bluerasberry on 2007-03-16
Some relative of the family is getting his janeu soon and the plan is to go to a village area some hours away to attend the function. I hear that about five hundred people and more than one full carload of Varanasi candy will attend. I am speaking just a little Hindi and I started […]
Posted in drug, education, religion | Tagged alcohol, Hinduism, ritual
By bluerasberry on 2007-03-06
I went to the Monkey Temple today and enjoyed it. Today is Tuesday so there was a big crowd there. Tuesday is Hanuman’s day. The monkeys here were nicer than ghat monkeys, but they still harassed people. The monkeys would put their hands out to beg for treats and if people tried to feed them […]
Posted in education, India, religion | Tagged data, death, Hinduism, monkey, ritual, temple
By bluerasberry on 2007-02-14
Mr. Upadhyay always tells me new things about the importance of learning. He still studies for hours every day and he makes a point to learn a few things by certain times of day. One thing that he has repeated to me is that I should have a “lust for learning” and that increasing one’s […]
Posted in education, India, religion | Tagged magic
By bluerasberry on 2007-01-27
At home with Nandan’s family there have been two surprises. One is the nature of Hindu religion. I never picked up on this before, but it seems to have a focus on what I would call getting minor wishes granted. Things like money, leaps in education, life extention, and good luck are boons granted that […]
Posted in education, India | Tagged Hinduism, money