After a month in Bangalore, I finally started my online classes and finished up everything for my Bellevue classes. Yahoo!
We took a day trip to a lake right outside Bangalore last week. We followed one of my dad's friends there- he likes to go almost every week because he's an avid windsurfer and likes to catch the wind as often as he can. Turns out he was the Indian national windsurfing champion back in the 80's. A pretty cool guy. His daughter is the first person my age that I've really met since being here, so it was fun to see how our culture's differ in how high schoolers spend their time, and just to talk with someone my age.
Today, I bought what I need for the 3 week trip to Rajasthan that I'm leaving for tomorrow morning. I fly from the Bangalore scairport onto Delhi, and then meet up with Jensen (who's already there) at the Delhi train station, the depart west into northern Rajasthan.
Steve left last week to reunite with his mountain love, Elyse, back in Thailand. Yarr! Jens left for Rajasthan the day after Steve left. And Mom leaves tonight for Singapore, where she'll meet dad tomorrow to spend the week. So all of us will be gone, leaving an empty apartment. When they leave Singapore on Friday, ma will join me and Jens for a week in Raj.
I'm incredibly excited to start my Indian travels, and hope I'll have plenty of stories to tell when I get back. Hope the boys had a great tolo. These two months have gone by so fast it's crazy to think I'm already 1/3 of the way through my life as an Indian.
Hare Krishna Hare Krishna
Krishna Krishna Hare Hare
Hare Rama Hare Rama
Rama Rama Hare Hare
We went through a Hindu temple to the god Krishna, and they chant this 108 times before entering the temple. And I joined them, all 108 times.
Rama Rama Hare Hare!!!!
Yarr!
