Hey all!
I really like Delhi, and I owe a large part of that to Chad and his clam disposition. I have learned how to cross the street, order a rickshaw with a reasonable price, ride the metro, eat, a way handle the people asking for money, the basics to get me by for the next week or so or the rest of the time. Things would be much much much different if I was to figure this out alone. Chad is leaving tomorrow for Mumbai and I am going to Jaipur and Rajistan on Tuesday. I got a guidebook (finally) so i will have some guidance. Today we went to JNU, a uni in Delhi to meet with Sayid a friend of Chad's. We didn't catch him but I got a taste of the university dorms as a friend of a friend of Sayid's let us store our big backpacks in his room. When we met up again we started talking...he is 1st year doing a doctorate in Hindi lit., pretty cool. Later we found a hotel in Parah ganj, kind of touristy area of town with lots of shopping. Check this out.. a hotel for 3 dollars each. double bed, outside porch, cable tv, personal bathroom...yeah pretty awesome. It also turns out I love Indian food, everything that I have had mmm mmm mmmmmmm(rubbing tummy). We went to an awesome bookstore today and I found three books I wanted but only got one...Elise you might like this one, it is about the biography of the organism that causes Lyme disease...written, I think, from it's perspective. For the past two days we also went to Chad's fav. bar 'Rodeo' where they serve tex-mex food (we just have beers) and it is a western theme, all of the employees dress like cowboys complete with gun holsters, wooden guns, cowboy boots and hats. But it is time to retire.
Love,
Rose
