This is going to be quick because I have to head home in the next twenty minutes. So whatever I can write in that time is what you're going to get. : )
Okay. First things first, there's not a Norwegian staying in our house, he's actually a Dane (from Copenhagen, and my family calls him "the Dane" which I think is hilarious).
Now, adventures: we have a five day weekend coming up and I'm going to Maharashtra with three friends!! I am soooo excited. We're going to be staying in this small fishing village on the coast. Yes. I am going to the beach. HOORAYYY!!! At this village we'll be staying in these huts on the beach and there's apparantly some abandoned fort in the ocean that we can take boats to and explore, and swim in the Indian Ocean (yay for the Indian Ocean!!), and swing on hammocks in between palm trees, and such. Yay. I'm ready for a break : )
We went to see a Bollywood movie! It's called Guru, and it was great, completely in Hindi with no subtitles but I was sitting next to my language tutor who explaned everything I didn't understand. Also, first Hindi quiz today, and when I was writing out words in the script I felt very accomplished that I can write things like "today" and "morning" in Hindi. Haha lets just hope I wrote them out correctly...
Mishaps: There's an auto-rickshaw strike in the city today, I'm not sure why, but there is. Our campus is slightly outside the city area so I've seen a few on the roads, but not many. The buses are PACKED. Getting home is going to be interesting, to say the least. On the buses, the way it works is the women sit in the front and the men sit or stand in the back. If a women gets on and there's no room to sit, if a man has a seat, he'll get up and give his seat to her. I wish it worked that way on the subways in New York.
The weather is heating up quite quickly, it's hottest between the hours of 12 and 2...not humid wise, just temperature wise, and the sun is pretty intense. The hotter it gets the less Western clothing I'll be wearing. Salwars, Kurtas, etc. are much cooler than pants and shirts. And much more colourful, which is always a good thing : ).
I think I'm actually going to head home now, because I want to catch a bus before the end of day rush home begins. Namaste, everyone!
2 comments:
oh anna! careful about swimming in the ocean =) though maybe oceans are healthier than lakes (?)
have a great week my dear friend
I second the being careful about the ocean thing, I don't want my wife getting sick over there in India! It sounds like you are having such a blast though!! :)
love and prayers from Europe!
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