Sno man
I'm back in Newcastle now. It's horrible and cold here. Maybe not entirely horrible, but it definitely is cold.
The memories from Nagpur, although less than a week old, seem like they belong to last night's dream.
New Year's Eve in Nagpur was a bit of an embarrassment for me and is best forgotten. Basically, I ditched my cousins to go Gondwana Club with some friends. We played Bingo there which I narrowly lost. My straight male friends tried to introduce me to one of their not so straight male friend.. it's touching how accepting these guys are. I mean not only were they aware that there were two gay guys in the club (perhaps more?), but they also wanted to set us up. It was so touching, in fact, that I flirted with one of the straight guys instead. Oops.
The rest of the night saw me throwing up in various places (one of them being on the dinner plates) and saying extremely rude things to strangers, most of whom were guys my age. Honestly, when it all came back to me the next morning, I was (and still am) thoroughly disgusted with myself for saying stupid things. At least I won't see most of the people again for a very long time!
The next two days were a bit of a rush. My cousin's wedding ceremonies had begun on the Jan 1st, so I attended all the ceremonies I could. That's the advantage of having 7-day-long weddings.. if you miss one bit of it, you can always attend the other bits.
The journey back to Newcastle was a bit of a mess. I had a night-long layover in Hyderabad's spanking new airport. I slept all the way to Heathrow Airport. In Newcastle, my mate Sina came to get me from the airport which I'm incredibly grateful for because I didn't really want to drag myself and my three bags through snow to the taxi stand.
Oh the snow! It's everywhere! It's pretty to look at but it's ridiculously difficult to walk anywhere. And now there are icicles outside my window.
I've started my rotations for third year. Currently, I'm doing Mental Health till the end of January - it kind of goes with the general mood for this time of the year - gray. But the snow has got in the way (surprise surprise!) and sessions have been canceled because of danger to patients/us so I haven't done very much since Tuesday morning. I did, however, have a snowball fight today with some friends. Us medical students.. so productive!
The memories from Nagpur, although less than a week old, seem like they belong to last night's dream.
New Year's Eve in Nagpur was a bit of an embarrassment for me and is best forgotten. Basically, I ditched my cousins to go Gondwana Club with some friends. We played Bingo there which I narrowly lost. My straight male friends tried to introduce me to one of their not so straight male friend.. it's touching how accepting these guys are. I mean not only were they aware that there were two gay guys in the club (perhaps more?), but they also wanted to set us up. It was so touching, in fact, that I flirted with one of the straight guys instead. Oops.
The rest of the night saw me throwing up in various places (one of them being on the dinner plates) and saying extremely rude things to strangers, most of whom were guys my age. Honestly, when it all came back to me the next morning, I was (and still am) thoroughly disgusted with myself for saying stupid things. At least I won't see most of the people again for a very long time!
The next two days were a bit of a rush. My cousin's wedding ceremonies had begun on the Jan 1st, so I attended all the ceremonies I could. That's the advantage of having 7-day-long weddings.. if you miss one bit of it, you can always attend the other bits.
The journey back to Newcastle was a bit of a mess. I had a night-long layover in Hyderabad's spanking new airport. I slept all the way to Heathrow Airport. In Newcastle, my mate Sina came to get me from the airport which I'm incredibly grateful for because I didn't really want to drag myself and my three bags through snow to the taxi stand.
Oh the snow! It's everywhere! It's pretty to look at but it's ridiculously difficult to walk anywhere. And now there are icicles outside my window.
I've started my rotations for third year. Currently, I'm doing Mental Health till the end of January - it kind of goes with the general mood for this time of the year - gray. But the snow has got in the way (surprise surprise!) and sessions have been canceled because of danger to patients/us so I haven't done very much since Tuesday morning. I did, however, have a snowball fight today with some friends. Us medical students.. so productive!