Just to try to give anybody an idea of the crazyness and beauty of India Kurtis and I started to create a list that paints a picture through random notes and thoughts and happenings: The India Way:
Pizza on Christmas for Lunch
Rusty old shair with no one in it on top of a tin roof building facing the Taj Mahal With the successful Hotel Kamal on the right and a broken puzzle piece bright blue turquoise building on the left
White people in advertisements
Fresh slaughtered goats hanging with live goats sitting underneath eating leaves
Magnificecent magical colroaful kites flying in the sky conencted to children on top of roofs while bodies are burning below
Filthy Sloppy dressed men and dazzling beautifully dressed women
Lonely Planets "Best" is usually the worst
Children playing cricket on the roof top
Beautifully bright colored Sarees drying next to the most polluted river in the world
People wearing any shoe that fits
I have good luck in India: confirmed when I stepped in a pile of Cow Dung - squish...hmmmm
A Million Dollar palace surrounded by poverty
Everything is wrapped in newspaper when you buy it - in the north
Sweets - all shapes, sizes, and colors...all taste the same
Indians sleep when they want...even on your shoulder on the crowded bus
Fog in the AM and blue skies in the PM
Electrical wires in a spaggeti cluster means broadband internet
Being uncomfortable being the only white person in the train station and then being uncomfortable being with a group of white people.
Many kites many birds
Filthy drinking water and yummy food
Terrible service, White SMiles, and great outfits
Trees growing around and through buildings
Burning bodies and litter of puppies
4:30 wake up call at the Mosques over a GIANT sound system while sleeping in a 4 star hotel
4 star = 1 star, 5 minutes = 1/2 hour, express = slow
Horns and music and the constant question "would you like...." goes well with the silence of the wind
Trainstations are homes to children gangs
INdian people look at you with monkey stares, bobbled heards, and like to have staring contests - we are the tourist attraction
Airport was a nice break -spent 8 hours there
Seeing lines in the road in delhi - first time in 4 onths
head tilt to the side means; yes, hello, ok, i see you
everything is half assed and incomplete: newly made bathroom with the tile stickers still on them or the gauk still on the wall
No stepping on rats
In US dogs beg; In India people beg
Only 1/2 the menue is available
Nobody has change
ANd everybody is happy!!!!!!!!!!!!!
