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Selecting Chennai – India’s fourth-ish largest city – as our port of entry into India is comparable to the average European deciding to launch their American tour from Detroit. It is a city one would normally not visit unless, well, unless you had to… We’ve crossed the peninsula from east to west via the Cardamom Hills in the Western Ghats, and our arrival in Kochi, Kerala was much anticipated. Kochi is a seaside town full of travelers (imagine even the western men wearing colorful head scarves to hide the dirty hair days) w/ a Jewish quarter, two churches, and a semi-posh coffee shop to hideout in.
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It’s early November… time to place orders with our producer groups for Spring/Summer 2011. To help us determine what to order, we hosted a focus group on Friday, November 5th at our office/warehouse space. The samples we worked on in India this summer were on display, and our focus group participants completed surveys rating each item’s style and color variations.
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Hello everyone!
Joni, Michelle, and I have finally reached the peace and solitude of the Cardamon Hills in the state of Kerala. We have settled for two days in the town of Munnar, with rows and rows of tea plantations nestled on huge mountains. Munnar is a hot spot for honeymooners from Bombay and a welcome respite because it is about 30 degrees cooler than our last several destinations. Even in the center of the town, horn blowing is kept to bearable minimum and auto exhaust only sometimes gets in your line of smell. It is relaxing, and I am enjoying it.
Wednesday I witnessed 106-year-old Ignacia Garibay de Moya request an absentee ballot to vote for the first time in this election. She became a citizen just months ago on July 19th, 2010. When asked why she wanted to vote, she said, “I’m a citizen now. My children are all citizens. That’s what citizens do.”
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