so i left the comfort of my nice hotel this morning.. moved into a smaller room with no view, but hot showers on demand and no mildew smell.. and next door to nick's italian restaurant which has a nice restaurant terrace w/ view and seems to be the place to hang out.. also next door to the green cyber cafe where i am now, and the green hotel which hopefully will do my laundry tomorrow..
walked down about a mile down a steep road toward dharamsala to visit the library of tibetan works and archives, where i sat in on a buddhist philosophy class for an hour, which had been recommended by tsering (the tibetan refugee i think i mentioned..) it was okay.. nothing i didn't already know/ hadn't already heard.. the walk back killed though.. if i do that for two weeks i'll be in amazing shape i'm sure. but dont know if its worth it.
last night the first two lines of my novel came to me & i wrote them down.. two lines down.. 300 pages to go..
still haven't met anyone or found anything here who/which makes me want to stay, so i think i'll check a few more things out. do some shopping and send a package airmail home. then i dont know if nothing else comes up i think i'll take the bus to manali and see what's going on over there. after that maybe a couple days in simla and the toy train down to chandigarh. am debating on coming back here november 1st b/c the dalai lama's supposedly going to be here. but it's all up in the air. i just chatted for a bit with a lady from vancouver who's been here for a year already.. didn't catch her name, but she was nice enough.. there's so much to see in india but sightseeing is sightseeing wherever you are, and that's not why i'm here.. i'm here for the people and the experience..
anyhow.. i forget now which pictures i've already posted so there's a few more for y'all..
p.s. the other night i watched tv with the kasmiris who ran the other hotel.. there was indian idol.. and an indian version of so you think you can dance.. and cricket, which i think i've basically figured out now after watching the india v. australia game. dont know the lingo but india won.. so today i think is india v. pakistan.. should be like war..
