Topic: On the road
I am now doing the ORD - Delhi – Mumbai – Pune – Mumbai – Frankfurt – ORD – MIA – Key Largo – Miami – West Palm Beach – ORD all on multiple coupons of one PNR.
Currently, I am in a hotel room in Mumbai. It is very cold in the room but no way to fix it. For dinner I had tanduri local fish, and a dash of trying to learn Hindi. Here are expressions that I can’t remember:
· Sorry
· Please
· How much
I don’t know why. I do know 2 ways to say thank you and hello, but I can’t get the one way to do the above.
I am overtired. This morning from 7 am I was sightseeing Delhi, including climbing all the towers of all the mosques and mausoleums, this is after doing the elliptical in the hotel, after a 16 hour flight. I then grabbed the 4pm flight to Mumbai and here I am. I should probably add that I’m able to put in about 2 hours of hindi study and 4-6 hours of work too, each day Sat-Sun.
Tomorrow I go to Elephanta island in the morning, a bit of sightseeing in the afternoon, and then work. And then I drive to Pune in the morning on Tuesday.
I could talk about some of my adventures here:
· The poverty
o People washing themselves on the side of the road
· The lady that didn’t speak Gujarat or Panjabi or Tamil or Hindi or Urdu or anything anyone could think of that was eating leaves with white powder
· The “single ladies” not allowed up in the mosque and my instant new friends from Delhi
· The monkeys and the stray dogs
· The cows of Delhi
· The Sunday used book market
· My favorite part was Himala’s tomb and the lotus temple
