Battle of Bangalore

Over this weekend on Saturday, my mom and I went on a field trip. It started at 6:45 AM and it was about a 30 minute drive to the Trinity Church where we had to meet. I had to have something to eat, so you can imagine how early I woke up.

My mom and I left our apartment around 6:15. We had to wait over 15 minutes for the taxi to come. When we got to the church, we waited for the rest of the class to arrive. We left to go inside the Trinity Church, and we were assigned a worksheet to do while inside. There were questions about British Generals, and the answers were hanging on the wall in plaques. Our guide explained to us about how India gained its independence. We walked to the roof of the church and saw the bell. She showed us the road we were about to walk down which is now called MG Road (short for Mahatma Gandhi.) It used to be called South Parade. She told us that the church was highly elevated because Bangalore is hilly and they put it on top of a hill so it will never flood, and so it will stay up for a long period of time in history because it is hard to take down a Church without complaints. We started walking down MG Road, and we saw the site of Winston Churchill's old house that is now demolished. The tour guide showed us a picture of what the house looked like back then.

We walked more and she talked more, but I will skip that. We finally reached the Barton Centre for breakfast. We took an elevator up 13 floors. We reached the top and had a complementary watermelon juice drink. We had an amazing view of the city, then we started to eat. I had pancakes, cereal, and chicken sausage. Here are some pictures of the view (click to enlarge.)

Vidhana Soudha Government Building

Girls marching at Parade Grounds

My mom and I left and bought a city map of Bangalore. We called our taxi drive to pick us up, but the company told us our driver was in an accident, so we waited for 2 hours. We walked around and looked for sunglasses and bought some groceries. We finally got our driver to get us and when we were in the cars a man selling sunglasses came us to us and said, "would you like to buy these for 500 rupees?" (12.50 USD). My mom said no, then our drive moved up about 2 feet and the man ran up and said, "110!". We didn't buy them. That's what I did this Saturday.