Chillin Like Ice Cream Fillin ;)

Well hi there! So we meet again.

We arrived in Kolkata like yesterday and there's already LOTS to say. We took the overnight train and boy let me tell you, if you ever want to know what it feels like sleeping in a jail cell-take the Darjeeling Mail. I had the great fortune (allow pause to take in sarcastic remark) of sleeping in the middle bunk of a three tiered sleeper cart. I had to climb up in there while having the luxury of being rocked to sleep. All in all it was an experience of a lifetime, and once will be suffecient for me thanks. But hey! When in India why not? It was an interesting experience!

Soemthing like 13 hours later-- we arrived at Hotel Housez 43! This place is really cute! Some people have purple walls. Awesome. I'm excited to be here AND learned some things that I hadn't thought about before:

1) I REALLY don't like dogs. Thought I did, but I don't. Nope. They're not for me. Never again.
2) I am a VERY big chicken. I find it kinf amusing when I internally freak out when I think I may have made eye contact with a dog that may or may not have been looking at me in the first place.
3) The only way, I think, to successfully fit in with the locals---is to walk down the street as if you're doing your fiercest strut on the runway. Look straight ahead and walk like nobody's ever walked before!
4) When you think you're walking on the wrong side of the road, you're actually right--which is left. I'm finally used to the whole wrong side of the road think. Still am not digging the honknig. Especially here, Kolkatians, I feel, are much more likely to run over feet without noticing.

Everything is amazing here. Very dirty streets though. Perhaps flip flops are inappropriate. Oh well. You win some and learn some.
That's all for now so until next time
Toodles!! :)
Sarah Fouad