Calvin Klein With Wierd Cartoons
First off, I apologize for being unable to post any eye candy as I haven't uploaded photos onto my computer in the past few days.
Research/Surveying is again underway as I began working in Kottikari today. I was forced to eat dried legumes of some sort by a villager and my translator (I didn't want to eat them because they were laying on the dirt floor), I ate some sweets (which India is famous for and which refers to all types of candies/desserts/snacks that are sweet) which were stored in a container that had ants in it, and I drank a Pepsi which tasted nothing like the Pepsi I am used to.....it actually tasted like Red Bull, although that could have been a mixture of the sweets aftertaste and Pepsi combined. Anyways, the sweets I ate were little pink balls that were a little bigger than marbles and which oozed sugary liquid when bitten into. The consistency of the balls was cake-like, but more dense because of the liquid.
Yesterday I went to Pondi at 9pm after my tri-weekly soccer game to visit the Sunday night market. It was about 20 blocks by 5 blocks in size and you could find anything from sari's to fabrics to "Calvin Klein" (parenthesis b/c they were fake) bags with cartoons on them to silver diningware. I came out of the market with a drum for my international instrument collection which I bought for $5, and three pairs of linen pants which I bought for a whopping $9! I was very happy at the end of the night, especially b/c I talked the drum seller down from 600 Rupees to 20 Rupees.
On the way home from the market, myself and Pehru (a friend from Kullipalayam who works/lives in Auroville) stopped off at a BharatNatyam (a type of South Indian classical dance) festival that was going on.
OK, off to work on my second stone carving.
Peace Out.
Research/Surveying is again underway as I began working in Kottikari today. I was forced to eat dried legumes of some sort by a villager and my translator (I didn't want to eat them because they were laying on the dirt floor), I ate some sweets (which India is famous for and which refers to all types of candies/desserts/snacks that are sweet) which were stored in a container that had ants in it, and I drank a Pepsi which tasted nothing like the Pepsi I am used to.....it actually tasted like Red Bull, although that could have been a mixture of the sweets aftertaste and Pepsi combined. Anyways, the sweets I ate were little pink balls that were a little bigger than marbles and which oozed sugary liquid when bitten into. The consistency of the balls was cake-like, but more dense because of the liquid.
Yesterday I went to Pondi at 9pm after my tri-weekly soccer game to visit the Sunday night market. It was about 20 blocks by 5 blocks in size and you could find anything from sari's to fabrics to "Calvin Klein" (parenthesis b/c they were fake) bags with cartoons on them to silver diningware. I came out of the market with a drum for my international instrument collection which I bought for $5, and three pairs of linen pants which I bought for a whopping $9! I was very happy at the end of the night, especially b/c I talked the drum seller down from 600 Rupees to 20 Rupees.
On the way home from the market, myself and Pehru (a friend from Kullipalayam who works/lives in Auroville) stopped off at a BharatNatyam (a type of South Indian classical dance) festival that was going on.
OK, off to work on my second stone carving.
Peace Out.
posted by Jon at 05:51
3 Comments:
What won't you eat?????
er, ....off the dirt floor? In one of the villages where the yards serve as the out door toilet? Is actually GETTING the illness a part of your research design? If you keep that up I'm afraid we will be STUCK with your GI track as the central plot to your tales for the whole time you're there! I for one was happy to see that we were now going to talk about Calvin Klein purses and linen pants instead :-). How big are these stone carvings? Is this the place to order one online? :_) :_) Love ya.
The good news is that at least you're eating more than you did as a kid. Maybe it's because you subconciously view India as one huge, exotic, bug-ridden buffet. That would make sense, given your prediliction for buffets as a young 'un.
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