Welcome to my weekly schedule highlights:
Monday: First day back at 'work.' Send off a few emails and take a few administrative details into account. Sit in the one air conditioned room in the blind school and discuss dating habits in US and India with our Indian friend. Then its off to the swimming pool.
Tuesdays: After a swim in the pool we buy glasses of sugar cane juice. It is freshly squeezed in front of us by running giant sticks of sugarcane through an arcaic mechanical press, generally aided by a man pushing the cane through on one side and another pulling on the other.
Wednesday: After a relaxing swim we go to the sweets shop and buy a kilo of gulab jamun, rasgula, laddoo, milk and nut based sweets soaked in honey..mmmm. They pack them all up neatly in unique sweets-boxes. Sometimes a bag of mitri too, a tasty cracker like snack. Ask me about it some time and I will take you to town (if you live in Houston that is)
Thursday: First go swimming then knitting/crocheting time. Both yarn and needles are super cheap here. So we create all sorts things that would kill me from heat exhaustion if I attempted to wear them here.
Friday: After an afternoon swim or alternatively a lassi. We sit in plastic chairs and wait as a dozen carrots are run through blender and I am served a macanya lassi...the contents of which are entirely unknown to me. WE then go to dinner with our mates in for the weekend from gagari. If they aren't around we go to a bollywood movie.
Weekend: the world is our stage (after the daily swim of course).
Somewhere in there we also go site-seeing and shopping with our friend Vaneja and shrink away in a puddle of our own sweat.

Did I mention its hot here?

written by  Drie on March 31, 2008 from Jodhpur, India
from the travel blog: Adventures in Hindustan
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LOL- Dana, you sound like you're sure working hard! =) I'm glad to hear that you're getting good use out of that pool membership! I enjoy the blogs, keep them coming!

written by  Della on March 31, 2008

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Except for the heat, it sounds kind of idyllic. I loved your pictures. I actually like the Rajassthani dress a lot -- that turquoise one you are in at the end is quite stunning on you. As for the sari dressup day, you need a different shade of lipstick. That Bright pick was so not you.

What kind of yarn do you get there? Is any of it interesting wools, or just acrylics like here?

written by  peggy on March 31, 2008

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I forgot one thing. In the second set of holi pictures, someone was quite artistic applying the powder to your face. The darker stripes on your forehead were really quite attractive.

written by  peggy on March 31, 2008

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