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Friday, July 06, 2007 ( 9:35 AM ) shut up christine just now sandeepbhai and i got pulled over on the way to this internet cafe, there are a milion people on the streets not wearing helmets either but for some reason we were the only ones ticketed i think it may have had something to do with me looking Nepalese, he kept telling the police i was american and they didn't believe him? i'm not sure what just happened fyi: if you cause a car accident in india, random people on the street will beat you up. jayeshbhai gave me my indian name - Ganga, which is the name of a holy river Marunam Ganga che i'm taking Gujarati lessons with sandeepbhai 5 days a week i'm learning the alphabet ands its kinda hard, V's are pronounced as W's, and D's are pronounced as R's but only sometimes a typical lesson sounds like this: sandeep: this letter is Ka me: Ka? sandeep: no. Ka me: Ka? sandeep: yes. good. next letter is Kha me: Ka sandeep: no me: Ka? sandeep: very good me: *confused* monsoon season is starting so the weather is cooling down sometimes when it rains its so muddy that i have to walk barefoot in the tekra (the slum is located on a piece of land called Ramapir No Tekra, so from now on when i write tekra i'm referring to the slum)and i'm kicking myself in the ass for not getting vaccinations before i left. also when my feet itch i am paranoid that i have hookworms eek heffrey what was that insurance website you told me about? a volunteer named Andrew is part of the Malaria Project, he distributes chlorine tablets and malaria pills to families in the tekra except he's really sick right now. i hope he doesn't have malaria but that would be kind of funny wouldn't it. ha oh this morning we went to a Laughing Club (frowning club for my friend Puneet because it was too early in the morning) anyhow it is the cutest thing ever a group of grandpas meets in a park at 5:45 every morning for 45 minutes and they yell "HEE HEE HO HO, HEE HEE HO HO" (there are arm movements also) and then you bend over and scoop your hands down then up toward the sky while laughing they also shouted things like "HIP HIP HOORAY!" and "MY MIND AND BODY ARE HEALTHY" and "I AM PERFECTLY ALRIGHT!" and then we did lots of body stretches and exercises with our eyes, one of the exercises is rolling your eyes in a circle. explaining it doesn't do it justice, i will have to host a laughing club when i go home i could see myself here for a long time. jayeshbhai said my soul is at home, i probably lived in india in a previous life. i agree happy birthday jessica hu #
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