New Years Hoopla
I love life right now. I love Winter Break, especially New Year's. Last night was a lot of fun. Even though it was the usual dinner party at a friend's house, I enjoyed it more than ever before. After the pooja, the three girls and I (Nevatha, Sneha, and Preethika) played carrom (yay soo much fun it's like the indian version of pool), then we escaped from the herds of elementary-aged children and played "Pull," a fun variation of Scrabble. And then I looked down at my watch, which read exactly 12:00 AM. “O CRAP we're gonna miss the countdown and the toast.” So the 4 of us ran downstairs for the toast, and all the aunties are like “where were you guys…you missed the countdown.” But it was all good. We then drank sparkling grape juice, and Nevatha and I reenacted Devdas with plastic champagne glasses. Back upstairs for Pull, but we were tired (time=12:45) so we sat on Sneha’s bed and talked about everything: movies, India, school, the kid at school who disgraced the south indian reputation, the unfair expectations that exist for Indian girls in general, UNSOLVED INDIAN WOMEN MYSTERIES (lol), music, people (you get the picture)…then at about 1:15?, Sarvesh came back from his American party (awwww lil veshy is going to parties…jk lol) and I miserably failed at playing Mafia. After about 2.5 rounds, we decided to quit and play Catchphrase. Lovely. At 2:15, the parental alarms began to ring. Time to go home...