Happy New Year!

Memories from India:

1. Street signs that motivate safe driving:
"speed thrills but kills"
"drink and drive is not alive"
"better late than never"

2. "Just chillll...just chilll" (ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh)

3. Visiting people for the sake of visiting people. We arrive, they ask us if we want water, we say no because we're not sure if it's bottled, they say it's 'bisleri' (a brand of bottled water) we still say 'no' (not no 'thank you;, but just 'no'), then we all stare at each other in silence. Then 2 minutes later we leave. WHY DID WE EVEN GO THERE???

4. Brats. Brats. Brats. India has to be the brat capital of the world. Where do they get their damn lungs?

5. Toilets. Really, can't even talk about it. So gross.

6. Electricty still went out every night....got so boring after the weddings and new years parties were over. I finished 4 books and got everyone in the village hooked on Sudoku.

7. Bumped into more people from California in Mumbai and Valsad then I ever expected.

8. Juhu Beach - new years...best pick up lines:
"your eyes could save the entire world"
"your features are so exuberant"
what?

9. I almost met a pilot from california (as a possible romantic interest). But in the time it took me to build my courage to meet him and then tell my dad about it (oh, about 10 hours) he was engaged.

10. I had fresh chai and great food EVERYDAY!

11. My mendhi turned out black...meaning...I'm meeting a man this year! (because ALL Indian superstitions are true, right?)

12. more coming up....