I’ve been home for over a week now and time is just flying by. It reminds me of how comfortable home is and how easy it is to not plan every minute – whereas India demands full attention all the time. I have to admit that it is a nice mental break.

I also have to admit that my return to Canada was not as rosy as I pictured it in my mind. Culture shock is not to be joked about, I think, and I can tell that I will need a little more time to get back to Canadian living. I miss a lot of things about India: street food, chai, the smell of jasmine flowers… the cheapness of living! But, I am also loving the snow and welcoming the cold!

Reflecting on my internship I am struck by how difficult it really was, but It was also very rewarding, both personally and academically, and I know that this will only become more obvious as I begin to work with the data and information I have collected. Three months often feels like so little in the grand scheme of things and in a lot of cases it is – but it’s time to get back to the real world!

Having this blog was really great in helping to process the week to week activities during my internship in India and I am really grateful for it! I have enjoyed reading about others and their experiences abroad as it is always nice to know their are others in similar situations.

Thanks to the readers out there for making this worthwhile! I am posting the photos that didn’t make it up last time – Enjoy!

This is the famous power tiller which became the center of my research in India – it is generally run on diesel but works very well on biodiesel and it is very handy for soil preparation.

This is a photo from Tamana, the village where I did my interviews.

The pedal powered biodiesel converter!

The CTx GreEn biodiesel office

Here are the people working at the CTx GreEn biodiesel office in February 2010.

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