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Mysore and Infosys

Today we woke up super early (5 am!!) to leave for Mysore! On the way we all had a lot of fun on the bus, and stopped at The Big Banyon tree! It was the biggest tree I’ve ever seen with roots going into the ground all over the place. We had so much fun feeding bananas to all the monkeys, and there was one with a tiny little baby holding on to its belly! One monkey even stole a banana out of my hand! After this we made another stop at a company that makes giant machines to grind up rocks into gravel! This place was really nice because they opened early just for us to come, and they gave us free hats and roses! After this we went to professor Rama’s sisters house. The breakfast was amazing and their house was beautiful. I can’t believe how much I am in love with Indian food, it really makes me want to move here! We saw an awesome temple here and a bunch of school kids who ran around with Juanita.

INFOSYS Mysore
INFOSYS Leadership Campus, Mysore

After breakfast we visited the Infosys leadership training center which was crazy! It was like its own little city! They had everything you could ever want like restaurants, gyms, movie theatres, tennis courts, shops, and a giant library. It is awesome how hard they work to make the employees feel at home, and they must give them really great job training here as well. During one of the lectures we had at the company, the man told us that at the end of the employees training they have to pass a test, and if they do not pass this test then they do not get hired! I thought this was interesting because they still put a lot of work into making sure all of their employees are qualified at the highest level. This company is definitely the best I have seen on the trip.

After Infosys, we got back on the bus and on the way home we stopped at some crazy place, I’m not even sure what it was. There was a giant dam and we walked over a river on a bridge to see a light/water show that was pretty crazy. We were very rushed by Rama during this and it was hard to keep our group together because we had so many people. On our way out it started raining and we all got soaked! On the way home we made a pit stop at McDonalds and I got a hot fudge sundae, and shared another chicken maharaja mac with Pete that was delicious. It was such a long night and me and Juanita had to pack all of our bags when we got home.