Been a little while

Hi Everyone,

I know it has been well over a month since I posted last. Sorry about that. So, this post is going to be rather lengthy. So, lets get started with the fact that I have finally started doing a fairly good job of seeing the city and surrounding areas.

About a month ago I went and visited a fairly famous museum located in the heart of the city close to the Charminar. The Charminar is one of the Muslim holy centers of the city. It is quite common to see women clad in all black full birkas. Despite the heat, they go about their normal lives wearing what must be an unbearably hot piece of clothing. The Salar Jung Museum is a massive all white building with many rooms for various exhibits. The crowning achievement is the Rebecca Statue. The piece, carved by the Italian sculptor Benzoni, depicts the biblical Rebecca shrouded with an all white head to toe veil. The statue looks as though a perfectly beautiful woman was created, at which point, Benzoni then draped it with a white veil. It is almost impossible to tell that the veil is actually part of the statue itself.

The center of the city is faily old school. It is common to see rows of shoe stores followed by rows of sewing machine repair shops. Below you will see quite a lot of photos of people going about their daily lives. You will notice that people are working with little to no tools. Almost everything is handmade, including the office buildings that we work it. In fact, our building was built with no tool bigger than a hammer.