Day 2 -

Today was the first day of the lectures and we all had to be ready for 9am, as quite a few of us woke up it was a close call. We hurried and got ready and had breakfast, and so the day began...

The first lecture was ‘The financial structure of the Indian economy’ many of us found it very difficult to relate to the lecture as many of us weren’t from and economic or accounting/business and it showed in our concentration levels. We then had a brief overview of Mumbai as a whole in the next lecture. (Mumbai: A cosmopolitan city) we looked at the ways in which Mumbai is diverse.

We then had lunch, in preparation for our city wide tour. We got on the coaches and headed for the Gate Way of India, I managed to take pics of the outside of the Taj Mahal Hotel. The next stop was a converted house of a friend of Mahatma Ghandi. Ghandi had stayed there for a little while and now it houses a lot of Ghandi’s books and articles he worked with. We the made our way to the Laundering district which was very large and busy, We then visited the Jain Temple which was sacred and many beautifully crafted, ornate statues, we had to take our shoes of as a mark of respect. Our final stop was the Hanging Gardens of Mumbai, which housed animals cut from hedges, a giant yellow shoe. We were able to see real-life bats flying up above. After taking a group photo in front skyline we headed back to the hotel with free energy drinks given to us by 'Red Bull' Reps.

(Sam Evbuomwan)