One thing I learned the hard way on this trip is that it is very difficult to get money from the states once you are here. Due to the Patriot act and terrorist activities sending money by Western Union or by bank once you are here is difficult. You cannot open up a bank account here unless you have a blood relative living here. If you have not arranged for payments to be taken care of before you leave the states then all that is left is the ATM. The payment is made in Rupees and the rate of Rupees changes each day so you need to calculate the conversion rate daily so that you can take out as much as necessary. I walk daily to the Atm while Jake is in treatment playing my "Frogger" game. I am getting pretty good at it only getting hit by a motorcycle once so far and that only caused me to get tire tracks on my pants. (Although I could have easily soiled my pants if you know what I mean. ) The most fun however comes when it is time to pay Dr. Sibia. I am not used to counting so many bills at once as the current rate today is 50 rupees per dollar so 300 dollars is about 14,385 rupees which is distributed in the ATM as 500 rupee bills and 100 rupee bills. The bills tend to stick together when I count them out for Dr. Sibia and I usually mis-count. So I developed my own style of counting which Dr. Sibia found facinating and decided to video. So here it is the first Bollywood film by the director Dr. Sibia and starring Dan Pastel entitled "An American Counting Money In India"
Click on the link:
http://www.intelligentsolutions.tv/video/anamericancountingmoney.wmv
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