Bangalore: Day 3
Driving from the previous city, Mysore, to Bangalore took about four hours on the bus and we made a stop on the way at a palace which was extremely intricate on the inside and had a huge garden outside. Our tour guide showed us around the village outside of this tourist attraction which had a Mosque and a Hindu temple and then we stepped into the premises of the king's land (which was very beautiful!).
Continuing on our journey to Bangalore, the IT hub of India, we came to a rest stop that had a KFC and an Indian version of Starbucks (it's everywhere!) called "Cafe Coffee Day" along with an Indian restaurant and a handcraft store which had so many elephants and animals in every form.
We made it to the hotel and had to work on our upcoming climate change war games, in which we pretend to be Indian policy makers in different sectors, like water, agriculture and energy to figure out how this country should adapt its' cities, infrastructures and policies in order to be sustainable. We have to know a lot about our specific areas that we're contributing to the group and figure out how to negotiate with the other groups, which will be very interesting. Because of that, my group went to dinner together to Mahatma Gandhi Road which was recommended to us by the concierge but the only restaurant we found there was McDonald's, which had a lot of vegetarian options and no red meat, since it is rare in India. This road sort of looked like Times Square with the amount of people and the lights but with much more density of stores in one block.
Bangalore: Day 4
The next day we woke up early to visit the office of Swiss Reinsurance and talk to some of the people that work in this office to see how climate change affects the reinsurance industry and some cities more than others. Florida was discussed for a long time because it is highly impacted by hurricanes and is at sea level, so they had a lot of information on past hurricanes and their impacts as well as the reinsurance losses because of the natural disaster. When we came back to the hotel, some of us went to check out the pool on the top floor and it had a great view of the city as well as really refreshing water. We couldn't stay out for long because it was very hot and we had an academic session later that evening. In the meantime, we had to work on the presentation for our war game that will take place on Friday.
At night, we tried ordering pizza from Pizza Hut but there was a big miscommunication (even though I specified which branch of the hotel we were staying at...) and the delivery guy ended up 20 kilometers away from our hotel and wouldn't come to the one we were at. Since it was already late, we ordered room service (the first time I had ever done it!) and it was surprisingly good and very cheap!
Bangalore: Day 5
Today we went to visit the Indian Institute of Management- Bangalore to hear a professor talk about social entrepreneurship and discuss the benefits of this practice as a market. The campus was very big (150 acres) and it was beautiful with so much green space and open buildings. After our discussions and tour of part of the campus, we had lunch in their cafeteria buffet in a room reserved for our 30 person group and our guest lecturers that was not expected at all, but very nice.
The rest of the day was planned for finishing assignments and group work, but since my group had finished the day before we had the afternoon free! I was exhausted from waking up so early, though, so I took an extremely long nap and just hung out around the hotel, because by the time I woke up it was dark out and I didn't want to explore more of the surrounding area in the dark.
Driving from the previous city, Mysore, to Bangalore took about four hours on the bus and we made a stop on the way at a palace which was extremely intricate on the inside and had a huge garden outside. Our tour guide showed us around the village outside of this tourist attraction which had a Mosque and a Hindu temple and then we stepped into the premises of the king's land (which was very beautiful!).
Continuing on our journey to Bangalore, the IT hub of India, we came to a rest stop that had a KFC and an Indian version of Starbucks (it's everywhere!) called "Cafe Coffee Day" along with an Indian restaurant and a handcraft store which had so many elephants and animals in every form.
We made it to the hotel and had to work on our upcoming climate change war games, in which we pretend to be Indian policy makers in different sectors, like water, agriculture and energy to figure out how this country should adapt its' cities, infrastructures and policies in order to be sustainable. We have to know a lot about our specific areas that we're contributing to the group and figure out how to negotiate with the other groups, which will be very interesting. Because of that, my group went to dinner together to Mahatma Gandhi Road which was recommended to us by the concierge but the only restaurant we found there was McDonald's, which had a lot of vegetarian options and no red meat, since it is rare in India. This road sort of looked like Times Square with the amount of people and the lights but with much more density of stores in one block.
Bangalore: Day 4
The next day we woke up early to visit the office of Swiss Reinsurance and talk to some of the people that work in this office to see how climate change affects the reinsurance industry and some cities more than others. Florida was discussed for a long time because it is highly impacted by hurricanes and is at sea level, so they had a lot of information on past hurricanes and their impacts as well as the reinsurance losses because of the natural disaster. When we came back to the hotel, some of us went to check out the pool on the top floor and it had a great view of the city as well as really refreshing water. We couldn't stay out for long because it was very hot and we had an academic session later that evening. In the meantime, we had to work on the presentation for our war game that will take place on Friday.
At night, we tried ordering pizza from Pizza Hut but there was a big miscommunication (even though I specified which branch of the hotel we were staying at...) and the delivery guy ended up 20 kilometers away from our hotel and wouldn't come to the one we were at. Since it was already late, we ordered room service (the first time I had ever done it!) and it was surprisingly good and very cheap!
Bangalore: Day 5
Today we went to visit the Indian Institute of Management- Bangalore to hear a professor talk about social entrepreneurship and discuss the benefits of this practice as a market. The campus was very big (150 acres) and it was beautiful with so much green space and open buildings. After our discussions and tour of part of the campus, we had lunch in their cafeteria buffet in a room reserved for our 30 person group and our guest lecturers that was not expected at all, but very nice.
The rest of the day was planned for finishing assignments and group work, but since my group had finished the day before we had the afternoon free! I was exhausted from waking up so early, though, so I took an extremely long nap and just hung out around the hotel, because by the time I woke up it was dark out and I didn't want to explore more of the surrounding area in the dark.
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