To answer your question, yes. I still live

Aug 27, 2006 09:02

The spiders here are huge! not the big hairy kind, but the armored-looking ones with long scary legs.
Indian divorce rate: 1% Arranged marriages: not such a bad idea after all?
All who think I should learn to speak Malayalam, say "aye!"
I have been forced to love spicy food. And so I do.
Ants are amazing. How do they find leftovers so quickly?
Yesterday I saw an elephant walking down the street! Well, being walked, but still. No one even gave it a second glance. 'twas huge!
I don't know what we were expected to do in the Pain and Palliative care clinic. I wish they would have just said "no, we don't need a bunch of nineteen year old white people sitting around in our clinic. We have no real use for you, so find somewhere you're actually needed and volunteer there." but they didn't.
Don't drink the water here.
I think maybe Gandhi was right all along. There's your answer, read Gandhi. That'll help you solve these problems.
I still don't understand how to use a squat toilet. I may never.
As it turns out, it's phenominally rude to
A. deny any service that is "supposed" to be given
B. help anyone with anything that they have a responsibility to do themselves
C. not stand whenever a doctor, clergyman, or teacher enters the room
And it's perfectly normal and polite to:
A. be rubbing up against other men in private places on the bus.
B. not wipe
C. eat dinner at 9:00 PM, and not eat lunch
D. be shirtless duiring religious ceremonies
E. stare at the foreigners
F. pass, as long as there's six inches to spare and you honk your horn.
G. be pushy
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