GReen GOA!

DAY ONE…half day of hindi, made tea and it boiled over, ate warm curd for lunch, went to the train station, WAITED FOREVER!!!, sat on the train for 20 HOURS!, slept on the train

DAY TWO…arrived in Mumbai (TWO hours late…haha…o India time), walked around lost for a little, ate at Mc Dondals (for the first time here), met up with Reverend Diwakar and drove in the RAVI-mobile, took a WARM bucket shower, ate a deliciously spicy lunch, watched Diwakar’s daughters wedding on DVD, chilled at the house with the house helper that was our age, Alka, saw RAVI (and he remembered MEEE!!), Diwakar shared his testimony and we ate ANOTHER delicious meal.

DAY THREE…breakfast, Diwakar and his wife attended the funeral of the mentally-ill child that attended their church, Sneha picked us up and we had lunch at their house, LAUGHED A LOT with them about our Point Loma trip last summer, had dinner, went to the bus stand and waited for the bus for an hour, left for a 12hour bus ride to Goa.

DAY FOUR…went to a sketchy-McSketch-Sketch bathroom at 2 am with the bus stopped, arrived in Goa, asked around to see which bus to take to Anjuna, found our guesthouse “The Orange Guesthouse,” settled in, went to the grocery store, walked around town, watched T.V., went to bed.

DAY FIVE…apple & peanut butter for breakfast, walked to the beach, bombarded by ALL the shopkeepers, sat at the beach, took pictures with Indian boys (UGH!), ate lunch (well I had a breakfast plate for lunch, cause it just sounded SOO good), found internet, bought ali-baba pants, peanut butter sandwiches for dinner, watched TV, went to bed.

DAY SIX…woke up and it was RAINING, peanut butter sandwiches for b-fast, walked to the ali-baba pants shop in the rain to exchange because they HAD A HOLE!!, packed up our stuff, went to Dominoes for lunch, paid 35 rupees (less than a dollar) for an individual pizza, blessed with PERFECT timing to catch the bus to Mapusa and then to Calangute (another beach), found our guesthouse with the help of a friendly man (otherwise we were wandering around and in people’s yards…hah.), Johnny’s Place, not the cleanest of places but it would do, walked the beach of Calangute to Baga and back, walked around town, found internet, took awhile to find a place to eat, walked back in the dark because they took FOREVER to give us the BILL!!!...but the Lord is watching over us, right?

DAY SEVEN…searched for a loaf of bread, walked to Baga on the beach, had lunch, found a place with a loaf of bread, sat on the beach for awhile (fully dressed), watched the Indians LOVE the beach, girls in full attire and boys in their little briefs (such a crack up), was attacked by all the ladies selling jewelry and men that were giving semi-permanent tattoos, MOLLY got REALLY sun-burned, bought a DELICIOUS milkshake!, went to the internet place again, walked the streets to shop, ate PB sandwiches for dinner, packed up our stuff, went to bed.

DAY EIGHT…went to the MOST delicious breakfast place, it was like a bakery at home, I got a chocolate chocolate chip muffin!!!!...soooo good, PS. This day was Ganesh’s birthday I think, caught a bus to Panjim and then to Vasco, ate a little samosa snack, took a taxi to the airport, checked in, flew to Delhi, in which the plane was like ONE-FOURTH full!!!!!....it was SOOO empty, there was lightning while we were in the air and a REALLY sweet sunset, talked to these two goofy guys while waiting at the airport, drove to the hotel that all the NEWBIES were staying at.

DAY NINE…arrived at the hotel at like 2 am in the morning, woke up and went to breakfast and began to be introduced to the other 21 students, SOOO EXICITING!!!!!, learned that one of the guys here is from DUARTE!!!...my town and we live like a block from each other and know some of the same people!!!, and here we are meeting each other in India, sat through MULTIPLE orientation lectures, went swimming, sat in a room and just talked to everyone, went to bed.

DAY TEN…woke up, knew more names of the people than then day before when I woke up, breakfast, more orientation, more laughing, more getting to know each other, more similarities and differences discovered, sat out by the pool and laughed a lot, I LOVE THAT THERE ARE MORE PEOPLE!!!...so much fun, sat in a room with a few girls and just talked (girls are usually good at that).

DAY ELEVEN…delicious b-fast, became really excited for everyone else to meet their families!! J, took a short drive-through tour of Jaipur with the group in our taxis, went to the MSID office for the first time with the group, sent off everyone to their house, and returned to our humble abode, in which our mataji was waiting patiently when we opened the door.