Hellllloooooooo. For all you sitcom loving folk that was a Seinfeld reference. Sitcoms are a long gone idea in my mind, unless that is if they are in Hindi and unbearable to watch, which is not necessarily due to the fact that I cannot understand the language.
If by some chance there is a t.v. in the room that I paid $2 cdn a night for, I am pleased, momentarily. I did not watch much t.v. at home so I have no idea why I would watch it here but sometimes it is a nice break no matter where you are. So, I turn it on, trying to relax for 5 minutes before my well deserved rest, to find random Bollywood dancing and singing, WTF! I mean really, it is nuts. The choreography is hilarious with massively over-exaggerated movements and ear-to-ear smiles. To be honest. it is growing on me, although I have no clue what they are saying.

They do not have pop or 'radio' music here. They have classic sitar, which is nice, or Bollywood movie tracks' turned mainstream. It is as if there are no bands other than the ones put together to make the movie soundtracks. Can you imagine if that was the case for North America? We would have all shot ourselves the year the Titanic came out, thanks Celine. Enough with that jazz, let's move on to another tune, but make sure we kick, jump, then turn to the camera and smile, then kick, then jump, and kick whilst turning to the camera and smiling, then slide, hop up, spin, kick-spin, dip, smile, throw in a flip, smile, kick, flip, jump, smile, flip, smile, jump, kick, smile, slide and finish with 7 smiles, 4 kicks, 2 flips and then BANG you are riding a camel while smiling, you flip of and......fade out.


I left Jodhpur yesterday day afternoon but not before drinking 3 bottles of cheap vodka with some Finnish girls to celebrate Finnish Independence. My gut is getting used to IMFL (Indian made foreign Liquor). We all took a great cooking class that lasted 5 hours. We learned how to make all types of dishes and then had a mad feast and filled our bellies. The lady giving us the lesson invited us for morning tea which was lovely, she was amazing. The name of her shop and her lesson was called, spice paradise. I thought it was catchy.


I am in Mt.Abu. It is the place where Indians vacation. It is a lovely town in the hills of Rajasthan. Tomorrow morning at 7 a.m. I am going on a 6 hour trek into the hills and forest. These mountains, depending on which area of the world you are from ,may be mountains or are just high rocky hills, are the homes, of bears, wild boars, monkeys, leopards as well as a handful of other animals. We begin by heading to a lake that is inhabited by 100's of crocodiles.

I am running short on time and this computer does not allow me to upload pictures, too bad. I'll make sure to upload a bunch soon, there are some good ones.