Santa Claus for Rich Kids
To recap the past few days of my exciting life....
Stew arrived on Saturday morning and within the first few minutes of his arrival I informed him that we neded to go into Pondi because I had to run some errands. So, we got on my bike and were on our way. Within the first six seconds on the road we encountered a family of cattle, some goats, a swerving rickshaw, and a truck barreling down the highway. Stew seemed a little scared at first yelling things like "Holy shit Jon, slow down!" and "Dude, watch out, slow down!" and "whoa, oh my god, ahhhh, hey-stop!". I told Stew to shut up and to let me concentrate on driving. He did so, and we arrived in Pondi safe and sound. In Pondi I took Stew to a market followed by a typical south Indian lunch consisting of dal, raita, curd, rice, papad, vegetable korma, and a few other dishes. At first, Stew ate his meal like a rookie, fumbling to shove each rice grain into his mouth using only his right hand. By the end of the meal though, he was at least a semi-professional, kind of likethe US National soccer team in this years World Cup.
Saturday afternoon I took Stew out on Arul's fishing boat where we ate fried eel, drank semi-cold Kingfisher, and went swimming in the ocean. At first Stew was concerned that there might be sharks, but after a little coaxing, he was in the water and loving it. After a while out at sea, we headed inland (Stew was a little queezy) where we beached the boat on a nearby beach (not the beach where the boat is usually kept). When we hit land, some Indian tourists came running over to the boat and they expressed that they too wanted to go for a "boat ride". They thought that we were some kind of tourists going on a "boat ride" or something, when in reality, we were just hanging out with some friends. Either way, Arul agreed to a price of 300 Rupees and then took the tourists out on the ocean for 10 minutes. Stew and I layed on the beach and slept/conversed.
Saturday evining we went into Pondi to "a DJ Party" with my friend Vinot and his friend Mani. The "DJ Party" turned out to be a DJ in an empty hotel bar playing music that nobody was really listening to. It was interesting....... On the way home from the party we stopped for south
Indian sweets because Stew was hungry. He splurged and spent 45 Rupees on like 10 different kinds of sweets. After eating them he said he felt "sugar intoxicated". The sweets here are all pure sugar. They are both amazing and gross at the same time.
Saturday night/Sunday morning at 3:30am: I get up and vomit.
Sunday (all day): I vomit and have diarrhea.
Sunday night: I don't feel well but go to a friends place to see a movie called "Loose Change: Second Edition". I reccomend that everyone see this movie. It is about the conspiracy therory and truth surrounding the September 11 attacks. I am not kidding, you MUST see this movie. Look it up on google and find out how to get your hands on it.
Monday morning: We woke up, packed our bags, and went on our way (I feel about 87.62%). After being unsuccesful at the train station we headed to the bus station and arranged an overnight bus to Madurai. It's an 8.5 hour bus ride and it costs 220 Rupees or $5 for two people. Wow. So we had some free time. We dediced that we would go to see a Tamil movie. We arrive at the movie theatre and I go to find out about the movie times. The next thing I know, I turn around and see a crowd around Stew, it looked like he was being swallowed. It seems as though Stew decided to go into the huge stash (a trash bag full of toys) of toys that we decided to bring with us on our travels. The point of the toys was that we would give them to childeren and to beggar-children. Stew took matters into his own hands and thought that he would give a few toys to some teenagers at the movie theatre. In short, a near stampede situation arose where everyone was grabbing for toys. Old men were taking coloring books, women were taking tennis balls, and I was thoroughly annoyed. Did these people who had $$ to go to the movies really need these toys? No. In short: we have no more toys and my friendship with Stew is over. Stupid Tourist.
Stew arrived on Saturday morning and within the first few minutes of his arrival I informed him that we neded to go into Pondi because I had to run some errands. So, we got on my bike and were on our way. Within the first six seconds on the road we encountered a family of cattle, some goats, a swerving rickshaw, and a truck barreling down the highway. Stew seemed a little scared at first yelling things like "Holy shit Jon, slow down!" and "Dude, watch out, slow down!" and "whoa, oh my god, ahhhh, hey-stop!". I told Stew to shut up and to let me concentrate on driving. He did so, and we arrived in Pondi safe and sound. In Pondi I took Stew to a market followed by a typical south Indian lunch consisting of dal, raita, curd, rice, papad, vegetable korma, and a few other dishes. At first, Stew ate his meal like a rookie, fumbling to shove each rice grain into his mouth using only his right hand. By the end of the meal though, he was at least a semi-professional, kind of likethe US National soccer team in this years World Cup.
Saturday afternoon I took Stew out on Arul's fishing boat where we ate fried eel, drank semi-cold Kingfisher, and went swimming in the ocean. At first Stew was concerned that there might be sharks, but after a little coaxing, he was in the water and loving it. After a while out at sea, we headed inland (Stew was a little queezy) where we beached the boat on a nearby beach (not the beach where the boat is usually kept). When we hit land, some Indian tourists came running over to the boat and they expressed that they too wanted to go for a "boat ride". They thought that we were some kind of tourists going on a "boat ride" or something, when in reality, we were just hanging out with some friends. Either way, Arul agreed to a price of 300 Rupees and then took the tourists out on the ocean for 10 minutes. Stew and I layed on the beach and slept/conversed.
Saturday evining we went into Pondi to "a DJ Party" with my friend Vinot and his friend Mani. The "DJ Party" turned out to be a DJ in an empty hotel bar playing music that nobody was really listening to. It was interesting....... On the way home from the party we stopped for south
Indian sweets because Stew was hungry. He splurged and spent 45 Rupees on like 10 different kinds of sweets. After eating them he said he felt "sugar intoxicated". The sweets here are all pure sugar. They are both amazing and gross at the same time.
Saturday night/Sunday morning at 3:30am: I get up and vomit.
Sunday (all day): I vomit and have diarrhea.
Sunday night: I don't feel well but go to a friends place to see a movie called "Loose Change: Second Edition". I reccomend that everyone see this movie. It is about the conspiracy therory and truth surrounding the September 11 attacks. I am not kidding, you MUST see this movie. Look it up on google and find out how to get your hands on it.
Monday morning: We woke up, packed our bags, and went on our way (I feel about 87.62%). After being unsuccesful at the train station we headed to the bus station and arranged an overnight bus to Madurai. It's an 8.5 hour bus ride and it costs 220 Rupees or $5 for two people. Wow. So we had some free time. We dediced that we would go to see a Tamil movie. We arrive at the movie theatre and I go to find out about the movie times. The next thing I know, I turn around and see a crowd around Stew, it looked like he was being swallowed. It seems as though Stew decided to go into the huge stash (a trash bag full of toys) of toys that we decided to bring with us on our travels. The point of the toys was that we would give them to childeren and to beggar-children. Stew took matters into his own hands and thought that he would give a few toys to some teenagers at the movie theatre. In short, a near stampede situation arose where everyone was grabbing for toys. Old men were taking coloring books, women were taking tennis balls, and I was thoroughly annoyed. Did these people who had $$ to go to the movies really need these toys? No. In short: we have no more toys and my friendship with Stew is over. Stupid Tourist.
posted by Jon at 01:39
9 Comments:
You're not going to start the coundown until Stupid Tourist leaves now are u? :-) Glad you're feeling better. Have fun. Be safe.
Sounds like you know how to get around in India. Poor has taken on a whole new perspective.
Umm Earth to Stew, Earth to Stew... you are the worst santa-claus ever. I bet you totally confuse the nice and naughty kids.... amateur. Anyway its nice to see that you two are getting along fine. Keep up the good work. Peace out hombres.
Tourists suck. I can totally relate.
I'm all sunburned right now, but fared a lot better than the Crooks. We went out on a boat today in Idaho (Scott's brother's wife's family (did you follow that?) has a boat) and we took all the kids from all the assorted in-law branches that are in town and went to the resevoir. There were about 11 kids under 8 years old! They also had 2 skeedoos.
I tried to slalom ski (they only had a slalom and knee board), and was able to get up, but couldn't stay up. I'm used to getting up on two, and dropping one, and slaloming was never my forte. After about five bouncing face plants I gave up. A few people went knee boarding, but
Scott and his siblings had a wild ride on the "water weiner" and then a bunch of of the kids (including Talia, with Scott behind her) went for a ride on it.
We all had a great time--but is the sun ever strong here!
Anyway, enough about me! I'll post all about it, w/ pics on our family blog when I get back home later this week.
Glad you're feeling better and having fun!
hi STEW aka LOFFER aka MALOFF aka STEW MALOFF aka DISCO STEW aka QUASI-SEXUAL-QUANTUM-DYNAMO aka LOFF ON LOFF OFF LOFF LAN ZON
test for JOn who can't get on the blog
My law blog's server recently had issues w/ connectivity from India, so I wouldn't be surprised if it's a problem originating in India, since Jon's having issues connecting through a different blog host.
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