At the Movies
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Saturday, August 18
38 boys, "A" levels 17 - 19 and Tom George, Nigel Hinton, vice principal, academic, and myself went to see the 6:00 P.M. showing of The Transformers last night. Megatron and Optimus Prime and all the rest. The guys enjoyed it. The adults were glad when it finished.
The theatre is something to write about. It is a rectangular box, long and narrow. There are four classes of seats, 1st @ 30 Rs, 2nd @25 Rs, 3rd @15 Rs, and 4th @ 5 Rs. We had 1st class seats which were located at the rear of the theatre. The equivalent would be about $0.78. The rupee is worth $0.026. The closer you got to the screen, the cheaper the seats became.
The movie started without the usual trailers. The 12 speaker boxes for the Dolby Surround sound were mounted 6 on either. Right on the wall. There were no rear speakers. I am not sure where they get "surround sound" from as we certainly were not surrounded. Loud for sure.
There was an intermission and most people left the theatre and went to the store outside and bought "snackies" and came back for the second half. There are no concessions stands in the theatre. The seats are theatre style seats in need of updating.
The community is proud of its modern theatre according to Tom George the vice-principal, student affairs, and Head of Dorms who is Indian and has been at the school for 20 years.
Following the showing, which ended at 8:35 P.M., the boys each had 100 Rs for supper in town in the area around Charring Cross, that's right! They were given a 10 o'clock curfew to be back at school.
We adults went to the Nahar hotel and restaurant complex and had Dosas. I had a cheese dosa (50Rs) and a Lime Soda (20Rs), salt. The salt take the edge of the taste of the lime. Total cost 70 Rs. ($1.82) We were back at school just before 10 and the boys were all back by 10:30. The dosa is a kind of pancake made with rice flour and would be about the diameter of a large pizza. It is served with 2 sauces and 1 spice. Quite filling.
That's the end of week 3 in India.
Saturday, August 18
38 boys, "A" levels 17 - 19 and Tom George, Nigel Hinton, vice principal, academic, and myself went to see the 6:00 P.M. showing of The Transformers last night. Megatron and Optimus Prime and all the rest. The guys enjoyed it. The adults were glad when it finished.
The theatre is something to write about. It is a rectangular box, long and narrow. There are four classes of seats, 1st @ 30 Rs, 2nd @25 Rs, 3rd @15 Rs, and 4th @ 5 Rs. We had 1st class seats which were located at the rear of the theatre. The equivalent would be about $0.78. The rupee is worth $0.026. The closer you got to the screen, the cheaper the seats became.
The movie started without the usual trailers. The 12 speaker boxes for the Dolby Surround sound were mounted 6 on either. Right on the wall. There were no rear speakers. I am not sure where they get "surround sound" from as we certainly were not surrounded. Loud for sure.
There was an intermission and most people left the theatre and went to the store outside and bought "snackies" and came back for the second half. There are no concessions stands in the theatre. The seats are theatre style seats in need of updating.
The community is proud of its modern theatre according to Tom George the vice-principal, student affairs, and Head of Dorms who is Indian and has been at the school for 20 years.
Following the showing, which ended at 8:35 P.M., the boys each had 100 Rs for supper in town in the area around Charring Cross, that's right! They were given a 10 o'clock curfew to be back at school.
We adults went to the Nahar hotel and restaurant complex and had Dosas. I had a cheese dosa (50Rs) and a Lime Soda (20Rs), salt. The salt take the edge of the taste of the lime. Total cost 70 Rs. ($1.82) We were back at school just before 10 and the boys were all back by 10:30. The dosa is a kind of pancake made with rice flour and would be about the diameter of a large pizza. It is served with 2 sauces and 1 spice. Quite filling.
That's the end of week 3 in India.
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1 Comments:
interesting to read about the food and other customs...even the show!
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