Class today focused on Branding and was given by Professor Balakrishnan. We were then free for the afternoon. I was able to get caught up on my blogs and e-mail, which was really helpful.

After class we had another session with the media. After listening to the questions being asked of Gene and Harvey, I decided to join the guys in answering questions. I felt my IT background may be of interest because of India's concentration of IT professionals. I don't normally like to talk to reporters because they have a tendency to slant your words to the direction they want their article to go. My words never seem to be quoted in the context in which they were said. But, I set my reservations aside and opened up my thoughts to the discussion. I feel it went pretty well. A few of them seemed to have an agenda, but for the most part the questions weren't too tough. I'll be anxious to see if anything we said is printed and is printed correctly.

I tried to get another massage, but they were totally booked. I had wanted to go to the "Olive Garden" Chinese restaurant for a week and figured this would be my last chance. Everybody was gone so I decided to go alone. It was not the best idea. The driver of the rickshaw really wanted to talk to me. He kept pulling over to the side of the road and turning around to talk to me. I finally told him I was in a hurry and that we needed to keep moving. I was able to order two dinners, chicken fried rice, and two cokes for $10. Not bad. I took the food as take out and went back to the hotel to eat it. It was really good. If they offered delivery, they would have gotten more business. Both Subway and Pizza Hut delivered for free to our hotel. Not like back home.

Late in the afternoon, Karl, Gene, Harvey, Teresa, and I went into town to pick up everybody's clothes. Then we went to Subway for dinner. It was kind of neat because it was just the MBA students. We had never gone out as a group before. It was kind of nice. The food was good, but Teresa bought a cookie and it had ants crawling under it. That kind of spoiled it for her.