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Seafood, Bars, and leaping from moving trains
Yesterday a bunch of us met in front of Fabindia (a store) Colaba to go to this nearby but back alley swanky sea food specialising restaurant called Trishna. While there I wanted to pop off an email that I'd written that afternoon and wandered around looking for a cyber cafe. Well I found one, but it was way expensive (Rs. 200 membership just to ( Read more... ) -
J for Jermany
On Sunday, after I posted and was walking back to Meth Center I met this random guy on the street who called me over to talk with him. He and I guess his three sons/employees were standing outside the Mumbai train station and he wanted to talk to me. He asked me lots of questions and ended up thinking my name was Ellen, though his sons knew my ( Read more... ) -
Bollywood Thugs
So today I got back to the room at like 2:30 AM and I spent about half an hour writing half an email to Ellen (I generally try to write them in my room and then transfer via flash drive so as to save money at the cyber cafe). I had some pretty chill dreams, one being based vaguely on the computer game and TV show War Planets and me being part of ( Read more... ) -
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Yesterday was pretty cool.
Once again I was the only person doing rotations as the rest of my group didn’t feel like going (my group has basically disintegrated leaving me). In the morning I went to Acworth and got a one on one talk about HIV/AIDS in India which was extremely interesting. That ended pretty early so I walked around town a little ( Read more... ) -
How India hated me using the internet and why we're friends again...
Ok, I have reestablished a connection with the real world. The Internet. There was some trouble back a few days at the cyber café I was using wherein they were short changing me on some hours which corresponded to a time when I totally ran out of money. Okl that’s an exaggeration, I had something like 30 Rupees. About 75 cents.
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Q&A and the last two days
Ok first to answer Rachel's Questions. I figure everyone might be interested. If not everyone, at least me mum is, so you can bite me.
Ms. Rachel said among other things:
Word up, Mr. Sam. How's India? [...] It seems like you're adjusting to India a lot faster than I've been adjusting to China. What is the local language there, and how much of ( Read more... ) -
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Well I was going to post, but this Iway is closing now. Stuff happened today and a girl had an infected apendix. There were cute babies. Slum clinics are are tiny.
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Part the second
The first night they invited us over to watch they’re prayer which was pretty neat. The Hindu prayers that I have seen thus far are basically sung and I think are very pretty sounding but I generally like songs in languages I don’t understand. We set up our mosquito nets and this was the only time that I slept solidly and without getting chewed ( Read more... ) -
back in the USSR
Or Mumbai as the case may be. Actually in Panvell (or howver you spell it, where we went for the rural rotaions) I saw a guy wearing a shirt with the hammer and sickle and something in hindi circling it, and also a poster incorporating the hammer and sickle and an Om symbol (less sure about that one as we were driving by in the crazy no shocks ( Read more... ) -
Downgrades in accomodations are imminent
So last night (Saturday) we tried to go out clubbing as a group. The place we tried to go to first has apparently been closed for 2 years so it was not of much use to us. The second place had music waaaay too loud for the space used but I still got a Pina Colada there (and introduced Nidhi to them as well). They're very tasty drinks when made ( Read more... )