Quick Update

I know, it's been a long time, I've been slacking off. But that's a good thing right! It just means that I'm too busy loving India to take a second to write any of it down! Luckily my sister-in-law gave me an amazing journal and I've been keeping that up to date, so I'll fill you guys in on some things that have happened lately.

So Holly and I have been busy on the weekends doing lots of shopping and exploring. One of our most recent trips, we headed to Laxmi Road for some material. We went to an amazing store with just piles and piles of material. I immediately saw a million things I wanted! I picked out about 4 different materials, each which I saw transforming into a different piece of clothing (a skirt, pants, a long skirt, etc). I love going to the tailor and just placing these stacks of material in front of her, describing what I want, and knowing that in a weeks time it will be there in my size! And to imagine that's the cheaper way to do things here...
Another adventure we had was on one of our days off. We had Hindi lessons on a Wednesday and afterwards we went for cooking lessons! A woman who is affiliated with Sangam had us over to her house. She had chappati dough all ready for us, she wanted to teach us how to roll it out. It was so much harder than it looked. Muriel did great, but Holly and I struggled a bit. Holly's chappati's ended up looking like..well, India kinda. And mine were just flat out square. Oh well, it made for an interesting meal. We also learned how to make a potatoe dish as well as learning about all the spices Indians use in their dishes. It's amazing to see the aray of spices that go into something as simple as rice.

Last weekend we ended up finally going to see a "Bollywood Movie", or what we thought was going to be Bollywood. It wasn't really, and it just ended up being a Hindi film. The whole movie was in Hindi, so Holly and I sat between Aruna (our 'house mother' here) and she translated some things. It's amazing though that you don't really need language for certain things, I pretty much got the gist of the movie. The movie was called Delhi-6 and I actually really enjoyed it. It portrayed India in a very realistic light and it reminded me of all the things I love about this country, and will miss so much in the coming month.