Eco Key?

So everyone knows that the new thing now-a-days is 'Going Green.'  Well, when we moved into our hotel last weekend, which will be our home for the next month, I found a new twist on this idea.  An Eco Key.  What exactly is an Eco Key?  Well, when we went to leave the room, we noticed that our key was in this little holder by the door.  Convenient, I thought.  Well, when I pulled the key out of the little holder, all the lights went out.  But, because this is India, it might have been a funny coincidence I thought.  So I put the key back in the holder, and voila! the lights came back on.  So our hotel is contributing to saving the environment by making sure that we turn out our lights.  Fortunately, our A/C is not wired into this thing, so it does stay on, except for the 12 hours a day when we are running off the backup generator.

Overall though, this place is pretty nice.  Meaning, I have stayed in worse places back home for a lot more money.  And the restaurant is really good, and cheap (within our food budget).  One of the craziest things though is just how bad me and my friend Daniel stick out.  Except when our friends come to visit us, we are probably the only white people in 20 miles around.  And I am learning every day that just being a small out of the way place in no way means that it is quiet.  Twice now in a week I have been woken up at 430 AM to the sound of horns honking.  Now why do you need your horn at 430 AM?  I have no idea.  But they use them here like there's no tomorrow.

For all that, its a nice little place and we are enjoying our time here.  We have started our work, and so far it is going well.  We will just have to see what the next few weeks hold in store for us.

I don't have the ability to upload pictures from the internet cafe here, but hopefully this weekend when I am in town I can update this with some pics.

Till next time,
Josh