Two extra thoughts.

The swami, at the second talk, talked about when people disagree with you. Relevant to me, yeah? He said agree with them first. It puts their defenses down, defuses the conflict, and they're more likely to hear what you have to say.

Maybe I can follow that advice. Maybe

The other thing that didn't really strike me until this morning was what an opportunity last night was. This whole trip has been observe observe observe, but we've never really had a chance to observe people who weren't reacting to US. I mean, okay, when we're just driving through the street we can see what's going on around us, but whenever we talk to anyone or interact with them in anyway, their behavior is different because of who we are, automatically. No way to really see how they'd be within the culture. But the workshop last night was not like the first talk, not arranged for our benefit, this was a series (really, a lot like church) that had been going on and would continue to go on. The speech was for those people, and we just happened to be there, able to watch it. He used America and Americans as examples a couple times, nothing real negative, and it was the first time I was able to hear someone's opinion of such not filtered through the fact that they were talking TO Americans. Really unique, cool opportunity.

Sunday, February 21st, roughly 10:15-10:20 AM local time