- Adi
- Posted: Nov 07, 2008, 8:01 pm
- My stay in the land of cows
Ok! I’m back from my incredibly long stay in India.
This is the general summary:
Adi says:
QUESTIFER WRITE MY INDIA LJ ENTRY
Adi says:
I PROMISED REYN I'D TELL HER ALL ABOUT IT -_-;
Questy says:
roflmao
Questy says:
OKAY HM
Questy says:
ADI HAD LOTS OF SUNSHINE, LOTS OF WEDDINGS, LOTS OF SLEEP, CRAZY RELATIVES, SHINY BAUBLES, AND THEN CAME HOME AFTER MUCH GROUSING.
Anyway, India was amazing in the beginning. It was all new and exciting. The cows excited me, they were everywhere, and everyone had road rage at everything but the cows.
Now I’m a vegetarian, but I find it incredibly stupid that people are starving over there and cows freely roam the streets and no one has had the bright idea of ‘HEY GUYS, LETS EAT THE COWS’
Really though, the width of people’s legs was that of arms -_-;;;
The streets are bumpy and there are more motorcycles and scooters than cars. Pressing the horn repeatedly in some sort of Morse code seemed to be the general way of saying the following things:
1) I’m coming along the street
2) I’m rounding a corner, beware anyone else
3) Hey you! Move out of the way, my car is going faster than yours
4) I’m generally honking the horn to alert others of my presence
5) GET OUT OF THE WAY I HAVE NO BRAKES
The back of large trucks have ‘Horn Please OK’ written on them and there are signs saying ‘please obey traffic rules’ but as far as I could see, not hitting anyone seemed to be the only rule.
There’s a huge society contrast. On one side of the street will be beautiful huge houses, and on the other side will be people living in shacks.
London blood seems to be high class cuisine for mosquitoes as well as potential husbands. I wasn’t aware of how much my British passport was coveted over there. I had several cousins asking me if I had any friends who would be interested in contract marriages ^^;
I attended a lot of weddings. They seem to be like some chain reaction, as soon as one cousin gets married off, the next family of cousins kick start on their own, its a weird sort of competition. I had to wear saris. It wasn’t fun, they were itchy. Weddings generally had about 5 important dates, one of which including putting the groom in a horse and carriage and parading him on the streets. I got to sit up there with him, that was fun. The dancing not so much since I have two left feet and can’t do a simple 2 step routine D:
I was dragged from one relative’s house to another. They all seemed far too interested in me which made me paranoid. Making small talk is not fun, but my Gujarati is now fluent so that’s the bright side.
The food did not agree with me, it was full of sugar, salt and oil. At one point when I refused food, I had my aunt telling me this: ‘hurts me in my heart that you didn’t eat my food’
They are all obsessed with losing or gaining weight, they’ll tell you you’re too fat within 5 minutes of meeting you and then stuff food down your throat within the next 2.
I realised I had stayed there too long when asked for the 50th time whether I’d like them to find a nice Indian boy for me that I briefly considered the idea. BUT THEN I REMEMBERED THAT I’M PROMISED TO OTHERS (*CLINGS TO HER HAREM*)
I became horribly addicted to watching Bollywood love stories DX I’m in love with this one particular actor because he has such charisma ._. I’m screwed. Their cinemas screens over there are HUGE and have the most comfortable seats ever and costs about 70p.
Restaurant service is amazing, and food is incredibly cheap, a whole family meal costs 5 quid. However when they advertise food like burgers that genuinely look like burgers but that actually turns out to not be the case O_o
It is awful for me to say that the one thing I enjoyed eating the most in India was the veggie burger at McDonalds ^^;;
I didn’t see any elephants DX but there were a few camels, sheep, goats and of course, the cows.
I was there to celebrate Navratri and Diwali, which were both beautiful festivals to observe. Navratri had the most gorgeous dancers, and on Diwali the sky was literally filled with fireworks, we’d take walks at night to see them all and there would be little kids doing the smaller ones on the streets.
Bollywood songs anyone? >_>
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Ok that’s enough of that, there’s lots of frolicking and sparkly outfits :3
More ochiba poetry:
adi promised to chat with ochiba
together they would have had a bru-haha
and we could all sing tra-la-loo-la-la
if adi would have chatted with ochiba
but...
no, she did not.
what a total snot.
even though she was missed a lot.
by her seme who is uber hot.
chat with ochi adi would not.
oh...
ochi is very sad.
adi is a complete cad
to diss the greatest love she ever had.
has the world gone mad?
ochi has to stop singing cuz it hurts too bad.
*sniffle sob*
oh the pain
*sniffle sob*
ochi will never be the same again.
*sniffle sob*
adi is a snob.
I’m going to take that as a sign that she loves me :3
Despite everything I did not come back married, not for lack of trying and brainwashing on my family’s part. .
My flight back was awful. My period seems to attract little kids, they were all very curious about my Sony digital reader, and I struggled to find some pages to show them that weren’t full of gay smut -_-;; On the plane one girl took some attachment to me after I fed her my apple to shut her up from all the babbling she was doing. She wanted me to go to New York with her and play Barbie dolls. I told her I would try my hardest.
It was a bit scary flying back on my own since it wasn’t a direct flight and had to stop in Mumbai D: and there were many MANY delays. I think I’m still a little jet lagged, and to top it off I have the flu now so I can’t even taste the food I was craving the entire time I was there ;_;
I really missed London, and the internet. I missed speaking in English, I missed my friends desperately and towards the end it got very frustrating and lonely D:
THANK YOU GUYS SO MUCH FOR ALL THE MERMAIDS T_T YOU GUYS MAKE ME FEEL SO LOVED ;_;
I’ve missed out on loads, TELL ME WHAT I’VE MISSED. I really missed everyone ._.
It is so good to be home. This site feels more like home than anywhere else.
