Visa Extension

India seizes to amaze me...the simplest things can take months, while something as involved as a visa extension takes a matter of minutes. Case in point: getting furniture in our trainee house. It took 3 months to get that done. And yet, today, when I went to the Foreign Registrations Office to get my visa extended, it took 10 minutes. No questions, no hassle, no signs of the infamous Indian bureaucracy. In fact, the guy I was dealing with was downright friendly and genuinely willing to help. Good thing, too, because I don't have too many days to work with. Now I can head off to Varanasi and Kolkata without having to miss my train.