1 week down, 2 weeks to go.
The food here is amazing. I really wish we had some Indian cuisine back home – I’m going to miss this stuff! Maybe I’ll pick up an Indian cookbook and take to cooking more often.
Most meals seem to be eaten with one’s hands. It’s kind of weird, having grown up with Mom telling me to always use my fork, and then coming here and half the time not even having a fork! But, I’ll tell you one thing - you haven’t lived until you’ve eaten curry with your fingers!
They’re sending me off to the beach for the weekend. Should be fun. 
Well, I now have internet access from the comfort of my hotel room, which means posting will be a bit easier.
I’ve been watching a lot of TV, since there’s really nothing in walking distance and I didn’t bring a deck of cards. I’ve been to foreign countries before, where I did watch TV, so seeing commercials in a foreign language didn’t phase me at all. I did find something surprising, though. No, not the fact that it’s easy to find English-language television (I’ve been watching HBO mostly), nor even the fact that there are both English and non-English commercials during said English-language television. (more…)
Well, I’ve been in India for 16 hours now (give or take). My first impressions:
It’s hot and humid, but there’s the occasional whiff of sea air that’s awful pleasant. There’s also a lot of animal/insect sounds constantly, which was annoying at first but now is kind of a pleasant background.
The driving here is terrifying – seems there’s few (if any) rules of the road, and at best just a small handful of guidelines. People seem to just drive whereever/however they want to get where they’re going. Also, everyone drives on the right, which I guess I should have expected but didn’t.
My internet access is spotty, but I’ll try to update every few days or so with what’s going on.
