sorry everybody
Thanks for telling me about my comment issue, Irene!
For some reason my settings were for registered users only - oops!
This issue has now been resolved, so comment to your heart's content!
Also, Irene - I didn't get any of your emails - I wonder if you are sending them to my old Seattle U address?? Thanks for the population info! I also read that it's worse in Punjab where the ratio is 650/1000 in some areas - brides are bought and brought in from other areas.
Checked into a 5-star hotel today and I'm feeling really culture shocked about it - and I feel guilty and ashamed to be priviledged enough to stay there - the money it costs each night would go a long way here. I read that the average unskilled worker in Bombay makes only 80 rupees per day - that's less than 2 dollars!
I'm showing the new student around today - he's super cool and nice - from the Bay Area - Filippino descent. We drank some beer and rum with our caretakers and played some games and walked around and danced to music and had a generally festive night last night - sort of like my going-away party from the guesthouse. It was hard to leave today because I got really attached to the cook and the caretakers after living with them for 30 days...They are like my Indian family now. If they saw the hotel I'm in now, they would freak out, especially about all the money I'm spending to stay there. We're just there for 2 nights, so I'll consider this the splurge of the trip and rough it for the next two weeks...
The bed at the guesthouse was like sleeping on a board, so I haven't had a good night's rest in a month - I'm curious to see how well I sleep tonight in the cloud-like bed! I weighed myself in my room and I lost 6 pounds! I got really sick of the cooking at the guesthouse, so I ate very lightly. My last meal there today was hard to choke down - I ate a small amount really slowly. Asha, the cook, said she wants to come to America with me and be my cook there - ha ha - she would have to take some cooking classes first...
Josh is due to arrive in about 6 hours now! It will be so weird to see him after so long apart! Going home is going to be really weird too I'm sure. The return-to-the-US culture shock is always harder for me than the foreign-country culture shock.
Well, I guess that's all for now - thank you for reading and comments should be fixed now - anyone can comment - sorry about that mix-up!
namaste
For some reason my settings were for registered users only - oops!
This issue has now been resolved, so comment to your heart's content!
Also, Irene - I didn't get any of your emails - I wonder if you are sending them to my old Seattle U address?? Thanks for the population info! I also read that it's worse in Punjab where the ratio is 650/1000 in some areas - brides are bought and brought in from other areas.
Checked into a 5-star hotel today and I'm feeling really culture shocked about it - and I feel guilty and ashamed to be priviledged enough to stay there - the money it costs each night would go a long way here. I read that the average unskilled worker in Bombay makes only 80 rupees per day - that's less than 2 dollars!
I'm showing the new student around today - he's super cool and nice - from the Bay Area - Filippino descent. We drank some beer and rum with our caretakers and played some games and walked around and danced to music and had a generally festive night last night - sort of like my going-away party from the guesthouse. It was hard to leave today because I got really attached to the cook and the caretakers after living with them for 30 days...They are like my Indian family now. If they saw the hotel I'm in now, they would freak out, especially about all the money I'm spending to stay there. We're just there for 2 nights, so I'll consider this the splurge of the trip and rough it for the next two weeks...
The bed at the guesthouse was like sleeping on a board, so I haven't had a good night's rest in a month - I'm curious to see how well I sleep tonight in the cloud-like bed! I weighed myself in my room and I lost 6 pounds! I got really sick of the cooking at the guesthouse, so I ate very lightly. My last meal there today was hard to choke down - I ate a small amount really slowly. Asha, the cook, said she wants to come to America with me and be my cook there - ha ha - she would have to take some cooking classes first...
Josh is due to arrive in about 6 hours now! It will be so weird to see him after so long apart! Going home is going to be really weird too I'm sure. The return-to-the-US culture shock is always harder for me than the foreign-country culture shock.
Well, I guess that's all for now - thank you for reading and comments should be fixed now - anyone can comment - sorry about that mix-up!
namaste
posted by mavis | 8:40 PM
1 Comments:
I love reading your blog! I hope you are having a good time with Josh. Take Care!
~ Amelie
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