Comments | reenabobbler: I visited the Bombay slums today...

reenabobbler

I visited the Bombay slums today...

Jun 20, 2005 23:48

...with my Aunt. She's been volunteering her medical expertise there for over 35 years.

The Bombay slums are massive. Half of the city's nearly 16 million people live in the feeble, aluminum shacks and pay rent to the "slum lords" who have illegally claimed the land.

My Aunt is a retired doctor with a big heart. It's easy to volunteer in a nice ( Read more... )

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veganpunk June 20 2005, 19:33:26 UTC

slums of india? did you see my son? hehe.

because of him i know exactly what you mean and the conditions of their living enviroment there. it is totally crazy.

i cant wait for you to get home. we have to hang out asap before you go to mexico. i have missed you very very much.

see you soon sweety

reenabobbler June 21 2005, 13:05:09 UTC

Yeah, it's really sad to see the poverty. We're all really lucky with the stuff we have back home.

abstracttouch June 20 2005, 20:14:03 UTC

WEDNESDAY JUNE 29th I am STEALING YOU FOR THE EVENING!
miss you!

reenabobbler June 21 2005, 13:00:50 UTC

Deal!~ I'm totally down. I've missed you! I couldn't find Nick's spoon, I looked really hard, but I found something else instead!

detroitbetty June 20 2005, 20:39:03 UTC

YAYYYYY!!!!!! HAAAANG OUT WITH MEEEE!!!!!!

reenabobbler June 21 2005, 13:05:38 UTC

YOU KNOW I WILL BOOBAH@#!~

vagasoreus June 20 2005, 21:14:37 UTC

my god reena that is one crazy vacation! are you documenting all this with pictures and stuff? i don't know if i could handle seeing all that. seriously, you should do something to spread the word and get people to donate money or something. maybe i just live under a rock, but i didn't know parts of india were still like that.

reenabobbler June 21 2005, 13:08:09 UTC

It's seriously insane. Oh and you totally don't live under a rock, it's just really hard to imagine how other places are if you don't see it for yourself! I would really like to put together some kind of thing to donate money/stuff.

My grandparents started a school a really long time ago in a slum/tiny village area for underpriveledged children and my uncle and aunt look after it now and I think they could always use stuff. I should ask them more about it!

reenabobbler June 21 2005, 13:11:59 UTC

Oh yeah! And I try to take pictures of stuff, but I coudln't yesterday because I felt like it may not have been appropriate plus the people were ultra conservative.

I tried to find the red light district last night. I saw this documentary about it and I guess the main drag is like this street with all the hookers behind "cages" or doors with bars all hanging out of them and stuff, but we coudln't find the damn street! People didn't know what to say when my dad was asking for directions! How exactly do you say "Hey, where's that street where you go to pay for sex???"

tanuki1283 June 20 2005, 21:40:53 UTC

oh my god!!! all that sounds so crazy, but you will get to see some different but similar things down here when you come also!! yet, i cant wait for you to come!!i have it ALLLLL planned out!! its goin to be amazing!!! ic ant wait slulie!!

reenabobbler June 21 2005, 13:09:45 UTC

HAHAHAHAHHA I'm getting to it! We're totally both online right now! I can't wait to cooomee!@~ I got your email that you sent a little while ago to send my dates to Lalo, but hotmail is SO unreliable here. Half the time I write a long ass e-mail and then hotmail goes crazy and I loose it, but I'll do it when I get back home!!!