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Relaxing in Indianapolis

After picking up his work permit from Princeton, Felipe only arrived at our AirBnB in Indianapolis at 4 in the morning. He took the morning off, but after that, we were finally able to attend meetings together. Despite the good news, we didn’t have any huge meetings in Indy.

In my morning meeting, I got grilled by the CEO of a small consulting firm, who also happened to own multiple local newspapers, about Business Today’s publication side. He asked a lot of different questions about the number of people that we reach and ultimately came away unconvinced even after I presented our statistics. The conversation was filled with constructive criticism, so I cut my losses and simply listened to the interesting pieces of advice he was giving me.

Later, I had a meeting with the Indianapolis Colts, the only football team we had the chance to meet throughout the summer. I was super excited about the meeting even though I had already anticipated that they didn’t plan on donating. My assumption was correct, but I was really happy to be able to visit a football team, so the experience was definitely worth it.

Our schedule in Indianapolis was entirely on the Thursday that we were there, so we spent Friday to Sunday lazing around.

Throughout this summer, I have been pretty unproductive. Compared to Princeton during the school year, I have a lot less work to do on weekdays, not to mention no homework on weekends. The abundance of time I now have usually goes towards a plethora of TV shows. In Indianapolis, I went through a season and a half of Billions, and that was after already finishing All-American and The Good Fight earlier in the summer. I am definitely enjoying the relaxation, but at times I miss the school year since I always had something to do.

The free time also gives me the chance to meet different people in the cities that we visit. I got to go to the home of some of my former neighbors in Allentown, PA, where I spent years 0-3. They showed me around Carmel, one of the nicest suburbs I’ve ever seen, even when compared to places like Saratoga in California. All of the houses were huge and it was so green! After visiting the downtown area, I got wonderful homecooked Indian food for the first time since beginning my travels.

The slow end of the week was a nice respite from all of the traveling we had done in week 3, but week 4 promised to be jam-packed with a lot of big meetings set up in St. Louis.

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