So I've been in and out of sleep since 3:30am. Apparently when your jet lagged you tend to wake up in the middle of the night for no reason, and it's suppose to take about a week for that to stop. Yesterday I met the Dr. who is in charge of the Institute. It's called the Swami Vivekanada Institute for Indian Studies. He's like over 70 and talks really low, so it's hard for me to understand most of what he says.
<The basics>
- Our breakfast,lunch, and dinner is prepared for us and put out buffet style in the cafeteria everyday. I'm not really sure who makes it but it's brought in fresh. It seems like its a family who brings it in but i'm not sure. Every meal is of course Indian style. I don't think I've ever had curry for breakfast but I guess thats normal. I've been eating extremely small portions because for one: I don't want to get sick and two: you all know i'm a picky eater and I don't want them to see me waste their food. They also put out freysh fruit every morning, mainly sliced and skined papaya. It's really sweet and juciy
- Showering is pretty interesting. There are 3 spikets...The main shower head and then two lower down like where your knee caps are one hot water and the other cold. So far i haven'tactually put the shower head on because it's just cold water so yeah, i've been bathing out a huge bucket lol.The bathroom is set up kinda different...no shower cuttain and there is like a step down which is where the shower is. The toilet and sick and everything is in there with no kinda of divider. Hey, at least theres hot water!
- Internet is from what I heard unreliable. For the most part it has been good for me, but it didn cut out a while ago. Apparently there is one switch somewhere in this place that control the internet and people flick it on and off sometimes accidently. I can't imagine why...
- There is a total of 10 of us in the program that I'm in. Lets see...Nira (whose also from SU) Sarah (my current roomate) Ryan, Jackson, Alexandra, Ohmar, Justin, Julia, and Matt. Everyone gets along really well. It's only been two days and I feel like I've known them for at least a week, but that could be because time passes by so slow. They're all really nice though.
yesterday we did some more exploring and we actually went to the city of Mysore, where there was an actual Palace! I've never seen a palace before it was amazing but we only passed by, we were more focused on the shopping and stuff. The streets were packed and of course almost every stereotype of India I discovered that day. For one, there was a little girl that followed me around forever saying biscuit. It took me forever to understand what she was trying to say lol I felt bad but I gave a what was left of the cookie thing I bought which was practically nothing. We're told not to feed the children...or anyone for that matter. Then these group of boys come out of nowhere with GUESS WHAT?! A few baskets with cobras inside...and OMG was a I about to die...they were charming them I Guess...he was doing something with his fist. And then the boys that was in our group played with it!!! I took video and pictures of course...He also had a monkey on a rope. I immediately thought...Abu from Aladin. And if that wasn't enough...the cows practically took over the place. I mean they walk wherever the hell they want. And they also take dumps wherever they want too...kinda nasty, most of the time I was watching where I was walking because there were piles all over the place. And finally, I discovered that it is true...Everything in India is practically dirt cheap. I bought a belkin 3 pin surge protector for $8.
Well breakast is almost ready.
bye <3
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