Hey! Currently sitting on a break between classes in IIT Delhi’s Central Library, also known as the place of air conditioning. This is week three for me here in Delhi, but I’ll take you slowly backwards in time and relive all the highs and lows of the past two weeks. Today is the first day I’ve been able to attend classes normally, without interruptions, and boy does it feel good.

For those of you just tuning in: I’m Dominic, I’m a 4th year Engineering Physics student at UBC Vancouver, and I’m going around the world in 8 months. I started with a vacation in Seattle, NYC, and Toronto. I did a German language class in Berlin for 2 weeks. I did research at the University of Duisburg-Essen for 10 weeks, studying semiconductor contact resistances in thermoelectric generators. That totals 12 weekends of meandering in Europe. I’ll write about those weekends if India slows down. Now I’m at the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, continuing my studies.

I’m also broke. But that’s not so important!

Here’s the plan: I’ll start from the very beginning, stretching all the way back from packing in Duisburg, North Rhine Westphalia, the flight in, the people I’ve met, the things that have happened, the emotions and feelings that were evoked.

Welcome to my world. Welcome to Delhi.