What a day! WE started the day this morning by driving out to Old Delhi on rickshaws- some of these poor guys were no bigger than a 5th grader and were hauling us around. The paper reported yesterday's high at 37.5 degrees and the people here were praying for rain... today's high was expected to be higher... poor rickshaw drivers. :( WE went into the largest Mosque in Asia and we got to wear funky garb to cover our sexy bodies ... by funky garb I mean a 1970's polyester shower curtain.. with flowers.. and by sexy body .. I mean dripping in sweat! Then, we went to Mahatma Ghandi's cremation/memorial site... the gardens were peaceful but everyone wanted to take their picture with the tourists.. especially families and men with the women in our group... Lee told them it would cost them 100 rupees and they all just laughed and took their picture anyways. Apparently it is Good Luck to take your picture with a foreigner. then we went for lunch at a delicious restaurant (Indian and Chinese food! Picture it- 8 lanes of traffic on a 6 lane road, horns blaring and mopeds weaving in and out, Lee the tour guide decides to teach us how to cross the street Indian style.. so we all hooked hands and started to cross the street (ignoring the oncoming traffic) as our lives are flashing in front of our faces and sweat wasn't the only thing running down our legs... surprisingly nobody honked at us and they were probably thinking "What are these foreigners doing?" but we all crossed the road safely (I think!). Deanna was asking about cultural norms for showing affection and Lee, our tour guide said, " In Canada you can kiss anywhere but not piss anywhere and in India you can piss anywhere but not kiss anywhere" (and we have witnessed this!) Then we went to the UNESCO site, the Humayun tomb and that is when the monsoon rains started. Anna said this could be worse and so she decided to walk through the rains.. the Indian people just pointed and shook their heads under the protection of shelter. Indians continued to take their pictures with us. The last place we hit was the Lotus Temple for the B'hai faith.. you couldn't speak... only silence.. this would work great in the classroom! It was very peaceful and relaxing but the rains kept coming down. I guess foreigners bring good luck because Delhi needed the rain... lastly we went to a market emporium.. too tired to spend money, didn't care and we were STILL soaked so we just had tea... After Anna said, "I got that cheaper and somewhere else" they made sure we knew where the exit was. It's still raining and we were stuck in high traffic for approximately 2 hours after the emporium.. didn't get back until 8pm! Tomorrow we head off to AGRA.. home of the Taj Mahal.
Over and out,
Nadia, Andrea and Anna
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Sounds like fun... but I kiss AND piss anywhere in Canada. Don't worry Andi, I only piss anywhere in the US!!
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