Comments | shaolingrrl: Quickie update

shaolingrrl

Quickie update

Feb 25, 2009 08:44

Long flight, sweet people, great food (except sweet people keep thinking I'll spontaneously combust if I eat it, so first lunch was a Subway Sandwich). I'm the only one in the house the company rents for such occasions, and as a result I get hovered over. It makes me feel very weird. The house is in a gated community and Thaembi (sort of house ( Read more... )

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saycestsay February 25 2009, 17:34:26 UTC

Ya know, being hovered over is good for the soul sometimes :).

Glad you're enjoying your experience! Keep posting?

shaolingrrl February 26 2009, 07:24:32 UTC

As long as the not-so-great wireless at the guesthouse holds out.

frabjouslinz February 25 2009, 17:37:10 UTC

Dude, I am so jealous. Are you taking pictures?

shaolingrrl February 26 2009, 08:19:52 UTC

Currently no camera. I gave mine to our guide in Peru, and Gary's battery isn't charging any longer.

dreambrother89 February 25 2009, 18:17:51 UTC

I'm not even going to *ask* for pictures considering the ordeal your camera has probably gone through at home.

Hovering is okay. But as soon as I hear of a certain someone lounging on a chair being fed peeled graped while being fanned, I'm organizing an emergency evac. :-)

Enjoy Mysore! And if nothing else, get a picture of you on a shalwar kameez. Oh and a few tips, if windy , keep a firm grip on the dupatta (if you have one) and the front of your kameez. if you don't, you might resemble Marilyn Monroe in The Seven Year Itch.

Oh and in terms of the shalwar, the pleated side is the front side.

And not sure if it's the same in Hindi, but thank you is "Shuk-ria" or "Shuk-ran".

Glad you survived the flight :-) Hope your digestive systems does the same!

shaolingrrl February 26 2009, 08:23:16 UTC

No lounging, no grapes. So far.

Does Adam ever finagle stuff from Bilal? He seems the type. :-)

Most people talk Kannada here, though I expect they know Hindi as well. Or maybe they're like the Southern Chinese who refuse to learn Mandarin and stick to Cantonese. The writing's the same, at least.

I'm usually better prepping, but it's been quite interesting coming in while appallingly ignorant.

jennreese February 25 2009, 18:19:33 UTC

OOh, thanks for the update! Please keep them coming if you have the time and inclination.

shaolingrrl February 26 2009, 08:25:26 UTC

More like the bandwidth. :-) We had a very interesting class today--sort of a wellness class in breathing and meditation, presented by representatives of H.H. Sri Shri Ravi Shankar's org.

One of the things that's most interesting to me is that there are all these people of a different culture that are expressing that culture in English. It makes it even more surreal, somehow.

dinogrl February 25 2009, 22:13:07 UTC

Jealous!

Had I known you were going to India (thought you were in HK again), I would have put in an order for a salwar kameez. I have one, and I love it. Sooo comfy and stylish!

shaolingrrl February 26 2009, 03:44:30 UTC

Hey, it's not too late. I haven't gone shopping yet. :-)

dinogrl February 26 2009, 04:02:59 UTC

Really. Really??? So, what do you need in terms of measurements, etc?

Wow. I want a job like yours. Instead? Second grade.

shaolingrrl March 14 2009, 20:37:26 UTC

I'm sorry I never got back to you. I asked about measurements, but it turns out that my friends (who are not rich Americans) took me to a place where the sizes were fixed--SM, M, L, and so on. I'm not sure I (or they) would have known how to translate measurements.

Plus, of course, most of the women there are tiny. The clerk handed me XLs as a matter of course.