Hello Everyone,
I am alive and well. I have not been able to contact you because I have been in rural India for a while adjusting and I recently got a cell phone. I am having trouble making it cooperate, but it should be reliable. My number is 91-735-008-3944. Feel free to text me because incoming calls and texts are free. Hopefully I will get them, but I may not be able to return them.
In the past week, I have killed a baby scorpian, hiked to a rural villamilyage, saw three temples (one which was covered with real gold and keeps getting new pieces all the time), I have gone shopping, discovered who my roommate is, was introduced to my host family, and have been loving the food. the traffic operates without rules or clear lanes, but everyone uses their horns the right way. They use them to let you know when you are moving in on them or if they are moving up on you, but they use them in short bursts.
The weather was extremely hot and I always sweated all the time and then the monsoons set in and now it rains most of the day. I found my poncho to make me look very odd to everyone, so I have found an umbrella which works best because the jackets don't always keep out the rain as a few of my group members have found out. Since the rains came the temperature has cooled down and the weather is amazing. I have not found a thermometer to identify what the temperature actually is though.
My host family is amazing. They live in a four story house made of concrete because all the well constructed buildings in India are made of concrete. The showers are actuallying apart of the bathroom and everything has tile and is water proof with a drain at one end of the bathroom. Talk about a large shower! Nate, my roommate, and I share a floor and have separate beds. I feel that we have been spoiled living here. We live close to Utaraa who is our program director and not that far from fergusson college, which is where we are studying at. I believe Nate and I will walk the distance today to see how long it takes for us to walk it.
Well that is all for now. I need to save some stuff for another post. Let me know if you have any specific questions and I will try to answer them soon.
Love you all,
Kelson
I am alive and well. I have not been able to contact you because I have been in rural India for a while adjusting and I recently got a cell phone. I am having trouble making it cooperate, but it should be reliable. My number is 91-735-008-3944. Feel free to text me because incoming calls and texts are free. Hopefully I will get them, but I may not be able to return them.
In the past week, I have killed a baby scorpian, hiked to a rural villamilyage, saw three temples (one which was covered with real gold and keeps getting new pieces all the time), I have gone shopping, discovered who my roommate is, was introduced to my host family, and have been loving the food. the traffic operates without rules or clear lanes, but everyone uses their horns the right way. They use them to let you know when you are moving in on them or if they are moving up on you, but they use them in short bursts.
The weather was extremely hot and I always sweated all the time and then the monsoons set in and now it rains most of the day. I found my poncho to make me look very odd to everyone, so I have found an umbrella which works best because the jackets don't always keep out the rain as a few of my group members have found out. Since the rains came the temperature has cooled down and the weather is amazing. I have not found a thermometer to identify what the temperature actually is though.
My host family is amazing. They live in a four story house made of concrete because all the well constructed buildings in India are made of concrete. The showers are actuallying apart of the bathroom and everything has tile and is water proof with a drain at one end of the bathroom. Talk about a large shower! Nate, my roommate, and I share a floor and have separate beds. I feel that we have been spoiled living here. We live close to Utaraa who is our program director and not that far from fergusson college, which is where we are studying at. I believe Nate and I will walk the distance today to see how long it takes for us to walk it.
Well that is all for now. I need to save some stuff for another post. Let me know if you have any specific questions and I will try to answer them soon.
Love you all,
Kelson
I'm so glad to finally hear from you and that you're having a good time!
ReplyDeleteKeep killing those scorpions! Yikes!
That's great that you like the food! What do they eat?
So awesome that you're so close to everything!
I can't wait to hear more! I love and miss you tons! <3
Suzanne
Post your Skpe info - that's way cheaper. :P
ReplyDeleteThey eat lots of rice and rice products with lots of veggies and some fruit.
ReplyDeleteIt would be useful except internet is paid for by how much bytes you use and that gets expensive when you skype.