lucys_gap_year (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} lucys_gap_year) wrote,@ 2006-02-13 20:02:00 |
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I saw a bird with a black face on top of a cow and also some weird grey chipmunks.
Hey Kids, I'm in India! Alive, though no credit to Indian airports. The Mumbai airport has almost no signs, so when I arrived from Joburg I had to ask about eight people how to get to the domestic flights area - between the eight of them I got the idea, but it wasn't easy. By the time I got on the plane I was so tired (it was about 3 AM India time and about 1 AM Bots time, rough when you've been on a plane all day) and somehow I lost my boarding pass. But whatever, i was already on the plane, right? WRONG. As we got off the plane everyone presented their boarding pass to be stamped, which apparently was necessary to enter Dehli, even on a domestic flight. So I struggled to find it and finally after everyone else had gone through i tried to explain the situation to the guy in charge, who didn't really speak English. Finally I got across that I didn't have my boarding pass or ticket, which caused him to exclaim, "Then how do we know you're here in Dehli!?"
Yesterday I slept most of the morning after getting in at six and then had to sign about a million forms - even in Bots i have never seen so much beurocracy (don't ask me to spell it). In the afternoon we toured some of Dehli, seeing MONKEYS on leashes in dresses and also on rooftops! Obviously I had to ask what kind of monkeys, but the man looked at me like I was nuts and said, "They're just monkeys." Also there snake charmers, which are very cool and creepy. He was hitting a is cobra under it's chin, on the road to the prime minister's house, no less. We also saw a huge temple that reminded me of the Sydney opera house and a tomb that was really cool.
Tomorrow i'm going to go to the place where I'm going to be volunteering, an NGO that deals with socially handicapped people; I think it's just an introduction day, to get to know it. Another woman is working there and I think we'll be lecturing to lower class women about healthcare, which if it works is just what I wanted to do; I might do a lecture on AIDS (so the brochures we read in all sorts of clinics last summer will finally pay off). In more flippant areas, I'm also doing yoga Tuesday and Thursday nights and I think I'm going to go to Agra, where the Taj Mahal is, this weekend.
In other news, YOU ALL SUCK AT KEEPING IN TOUCH!!!! You know who you are. I'm using gmail again now and I expect news of everyone's life.
Love to all!
Hey Kids, I'm in India! Alive, though no credit to Indian airports. The Mumbai airport has almost no signs, so when I arrived from Joburg I had to ask about eight people how to get to the domestic flights area - between the eight of them I got the idea, but it wasn't easy. By the time I got on the plane I was so tired (it was about 3 AM India time and about 1 AM Bots time, rough when you've been on a plane all day) and somehow I lost my boarding pass. But whatever, i was already on the plane, right? WRONG. As we got off the plane everyone presented their boarding pass to be stamped, which apparently was necessary to enter Dehli, even on a domestic flight. So I struggled to find it and finally after everyone else had gone through i tried to explain the situation to the guy in charge, who didn't really speak English. Finally I got across that I didn't have my boarding pass or ticket, which caused him to exclaim, "Then how do we know you're here in Dehli!?"
Yesterday I slept most of the morning after getting in at six and then had to sign about a million forms - even in Bots i have never seen so much beurocracy (don't ask me to spell it). In the afternoon we toured some of Dehli, seeing MONKEYS on leashes in dresses and also on rooftops! Obviously I had to ask what kind of monkeys, but the man looked at me like I was nuts and said, "They're just monkeys." Also there snake charmers, which are very cool and creepy. He was hitting a is cobra under it's chin, on the road to the prime minister's house, no less. We also saw a huge temple that reminded me of the Sydney opera house and a tomb that was really cool.
Tomorrow i'm going to go to the place where I'm going to be volunteering, an NGO that deals with socially handicapped people; I think it's just an introduction day, to get to know it. Another woman is working there and I think we'll be lecturing to lower class women about healthcare, which if it works is just what I wanted to do; I might do a lecture on AIDS (so the brochures we read in all sorts of clinics last summer will finally pay off). In more flippant areas, I'm also doing yoga Tuesday and Thursday nights and I think I'm going to go to Agra, where the Taj Mahal is, this weekend.
In other news, YOU ALL SUCK AT KEEPING IN TOUCH!!!! You know who you are. I'm using gmail again now and I expect news of everyone's life.
Love to all!
