# SOME DESCRIPTIVE TITLE # Copyright (C) YEAR Free Software Foundation, Inc. # This file is distributed under the same license as the PACKAGE package. # FIRST AUTHOR , YEAR. # #, fuzzy msgid "" msgstr "" "Project-Id-Version: PACKAGE VERSION\n" "POT-Creation-Date: 2011-11-22 04:18+0100\n" "PO-Revision-Date: YEAR-MO-DA HO:MI+ZONE\n" "Last-Translator: FULL NAME \n" "Language-Team: LANGUAGE \n" "Language: \n" "MIME-Version: 1.0\n" "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8\n" "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\n" #. type: Title # #, no-wrap msgid "Asia 2011 - Khammam" msgstr "" #. type: Plain text #, no-wrap msgid "[[!meta date=\"2011-10-19\"]]\n" msgstr "" #. type: Plain text #, no-wrap msgid "[[!tag debian blog]]\n" msgstr "" #. type: Plain text msgid "" "My first morning in India I woke up very late in [the house of Pavithrans " "parents][]. Pavithran was out organizing events for us, his father was at " "work, leaving me with his mother. She spoke little english - unsure if it " "was lack of skills or she was humble, or perhaps she just felt as shy as me " "in the situation." msgstr "" #. type: Plain text #, no-wrap msgid "" "[the house of Pavithrans parents]: " "http://www.openstreetmap.org/?way=61899027\n" " \"House of Pavithrans parents on OpenStreetMap\"\n" msgstr "" #. type: Plain text msgid "" "How to, ahem, do your thing at a restroom when there is no toilet paper but " "instead a bucket of water? I decided to not yell for help but use my " "imagination." msgstr "" #. type: Plain text msgid "" "How to eat breakfast local style? I knew from dinner previous night with " "Pavithran that local custom was to eat with my hands and that it (lucky for " "me) was tolerated in India to use left hand, so turned down the kind offer " "for a spoon. But were I supposed to mix rice with all the curries? Or one " "at a time? In which order? What if a curry was too hot to dip my fingers " "into? Was the liquid stuff to drink or to mix with the rice or eat " "afterwards?" msgstr "" #. type: Plain text msgid "" "I asked for help, and first she just smiled at my alien useless language and " "then when I persisted, she patiently demonstrated with her hands in my food " "how to do. The only natural thing to do, really, and I dearly appreciate " "her help and patiency. But wauw, it was mind-blowing to me! Since early " "childhood, fingers in food is a forbidden thing: \"Don't play with the " "food!\". On top of that, having someone else handle my dish while at the " "table is something I associate with being very old and needing to be " "spoon-fed." msgstr "" #. type: Plain text msgid "" "In the afternoon we went for a small hike to an old stone fortress in the " "middle of Khammam - with a great view of the sun setting." msgstr "" #. type: Plain text msgid "" "Next day we went to Sarada Institute of Technology & Science where I gave my " "first [talk][] to about 100 students. I had intended to provide concrete " "facts on Debian generally and on my pet project, Debian Pure Blends, but " "then the night before decided to radically shift focus to their situation in " "the early twenties - as best as I could imagine it. Pavithran had clearly " "expected a different style talk, but I liked it and believe it was received " "well by the audience as well." msgstr "" #. type: Plain text #, no-wrap msgid "" "[talk]: http://dr.jones.dk/blends/talk/khammam/\n" " \"Talk slides: Debian Pure Blends\"\n" msgstr "" #. type: Plain text msgid "" "The teacher responsible for the event, Bhukya Jabber, afterwards asked for " "hints on running Debian at their computer lab. I suggested to not lock down " "access but instead make it easy to reinstall, and he explained how he was " "quite interested in a larger degree of learning-by-doing (which I had also " "promoted in my talk) but was constrained by curriculum dictated higher up " "in the educational system." msgstr "" #. type: Plain text msgid "" "Late that day Pavithrans father introduced me to [CPM Khammam][] - the local " "offices and community center of the [Communist Party][] - and a colleague of " "his at the place, N. N. Rao. I instantly fell in love with the place and " "its atmosphere, and now have an open invitation to come back to spend 1-2 " "months to study and to collaborate with other users of the place (including " "some kids hosted there) on Free Software." msgstr "" #. type: Plain text #, no-wrap msgid "" "[CPM Khammam]: http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/node/630425208\n" " \"CPM Khammam on OpenStreetMap\"\n" msgstr "" #. type: Plain text msgid "[Communist Party]: http://cpim.org/" msgstr "" #. type: Plain text msgid "Next morning we headed back by train to Hyderabad..." msgstr "" #. type: Plain text #, no-wrap msgid "" "I am still amazed how radical it feels sticking my fingers into food.\n" "Not the physical feeling (I am not _that_ disconnected from my body) but\n" "similar to a discovery I had as a teenager: After 7 years of\n" "piano lessons (and numerous other instruments less patiently) I gave up\n" "because I felt it was too hard expressing personality through the\n" "instrument. I then sang - as I had always done, just not treating the\n" "voice as the serious muical instrument it then became to me.\n" "Similarly I now learned that eating with the fingers is not just\n" "yet another eating style like fork+knife or sticks\n" " - it is the *natural* one. Obviously, in hinsight.\n" msgstr "" #. type: Plain text msgid "This text is part of my [[Asia 2011|asia2011]] scriblings." msgstr ""