Showing posts with label India. Show all posts
Showing posts with label India. Show all posts

Monday, July 11, 2011

Guessing Game

Hello reader. So for the last week I've been traveling with Eric and Shyam through northern India. The following two pictures are previews of two albums I'll be putting together when I get back to the States. Go ahead and guess the album themes.


We have been to palaces and forts and temples, and we have gone on a safari and been stared down by packs of cute monkeys. This is a strange country to travel, and it can be hard since you're drowned by a vast poverty that pours into even the richest streets and has to be part of the country's definition. I asked someone in a store if there was a place to throw my soda can, and I was told to just throw it in the street. While India is so beautiful, you get the sense that its people need to gain a more practical sense of community for its people to escape this poverty. Being here is like living some kind of absurdist comedy.

Its chain is attached to nothing. Welcome to India.

Sunday, July 3, 2011

To Rajasthan!

For the last two weeks, I've been in Ahmedabad, India, enjoying the company of close family members and living in thorough comfort. Just when I started to feel like I could happily live here for a little while, it's time to go. The looming departure obviously helped induce this deep desire to stay, as it did in every city in Europe. That being said, I have the joy of knowing I will be back in Ahmedabad soon enough. And! Tomorrow morning, I fly to Delhi and begin my two-and-a-half week tour of Rajasthan (a state in northern India) with two of my best friends. They're both a handful though, so it'll be tough. On to India: Part Two!

Since I have been so occupied with the rest of the world, I haven't been deeply homesick aside from the occasional friend craving and parent craving and Texas food craving. That is, until today, when my parents officially moved out of the house we lived in for 20 years. So for a couple of minutes, I gave that old home my brainspace.

Gujurat, out.

P.S. I'm supposed to meet Eric at Cafe Coffee Day in the arrival area of Terminal 3 in the Delhi airport. This is another place I can check in case I forget. :P

Saturday, July 2, 2011

A Morning Herd

In the distance we have a herder with goats.

Wednesday, June 29, 2011

Tuesday, June 28, 2011