7/02/2010: India

VIEW FROM OUR ROOFTOP

Morning.

"Why are you wearing sunglasses?"

-"They're prescription. Prescription for cool."

STANLEY THE MANLY

Met up with the Missionary, Stanley, who is deaf and works with the Organization D.O.O.R. Then we left First Hostel for school to eat lunch. Helped Ms. Emily organize in the library. Quick trip to the Internet Cafe to send off an email and then back home. The thing was the gate was still locked and Miss Emily had the key. So, us boys went over to visit First Hostel, home to 90 boys. There, it was drums, filming, jumprope, and dancing. Kids liked my haircut. They called it "ROMAN" style and they also dug how i wear my belt to the side.

On the way back home, we had to pay a quick visit to the girls at Third Hostel which turned into a Freeze & Blob Tag Event! Slipped in the dirt and cut up my right hand/arm and left leg through my jeans. Navatha took care of me, bringing ointment and cotton balls. (I tagged the little girl I was chasing by the way.) Then before that, also during tag, I jumped onto a branch (with thorns) and one of them went right through the sole of my Converse, a half inch into my foot. I thought there was going to be SO much blood when I was FINALLY able to get my shoe off but..nothing. Hurt though.

and PUNO? of course!

Brandon: "Are we playing PUNO?"

Me: "Is it nighttime?!? " :)

7/01/2010: Walk Around India

FIRST NIGHT: It started to rain, which is such a blessing especially when the power goes out and the heat gets to you at night. Mike L., Me, and Brandon all kinda woke up at the same time during the night and went out on the roof @ 415am to soak up the rain and take in the sights of India, four stories up on our roof, bare foot, and lovin' where we're at.

DEAD DOG

832pm Wednesday 6/30~ 903am Thursday 7/01 India Time

Found this dog yesterday right outside our house when we went outside to play soccer and Frisbee with some local neighborhood kids. They came out to join as soon as they saw us.

GATE PATTERN

House Left of the "Neighbors", Across the street.

911am

BIRD IN TRASHPILE

922am

HOUSE GATE

907pm~ 937am

This Rooster was pickin' @ the dead dog when i walked by. They must take turns with the wild pigs that roam around eating whatever they can find and i believe the other dogs too, but don't quote me on that last part.

942am

LIZARD

Outside the house on the cement.

918am

LEAF

Yellow stem. Med green leaf. In Trash pile.

928pm

OLD LIZARD FRIEND

He was still hanging around when I came back from my little excursion around our neck of the woods

941am

After my morning walk, we then visited the school.

4th CLASS EM GIRL

306pm

Ate lunch with the kids and toured every classroom. At the end of the school day, we hung out with "Miss Bri's" class from last year and went up on the school roof for a game of Duck, Duck, Goose. Bus Ride back to 2nd & 4th Hostel. Girls and Boys HIV positive. Played with the boys doing High Fives, which escalated into swinging and picking them up for HOURS.

Then the rain started again and POURED the rest of the night and we ate dinner in the boy's hostel. Egg Curry. Walked back home through the rain @ the end of the night and right before we reached the cement of our House Gate, Cara fell knee deep in the mud, and as I went to go help her up, I started to sink as well, as the mud claimed me up to my thighs. Long story short, my left sandal is now 3 feet underground in India and there's no getting it back.

PUNO!

Hyderabad, India

VIEW FROM OUR PLACE

1204am~1234pm

6/30/2010

FIRST DAY: Napped for an hour. Power went out. We have to get our bodies to adjust to the time zone. Went to 3rd Hostel, which is all girls & played Badminton with them. Then went to a Market Super Store in the city so the girls of our group could buy their India attire. Took a mototaxi out there. Afterwards, it was back to 3rd Hostel where we played some FREEZE tag. Walked home in the evening for dinner. Followed by a game of UNO & PUNO (Power Uno).

6/30/2010-New Delhi to Hyderabad Airports

VIEW FROM THE INFOTAINMENT ZONE looking out

201pm~231am Delhi Time

10 Hour Overnight Layover in New Delhi Airport. Lounging in the INFOTAINMENT ZONE. Trying to get some sleep, but it's not happening.

AIRPORT cooling system in architecture

240pm Tucson Time~ 310am N.Delhi

Take-off time to Hyderabad 616pm. Landed @ 8:06pm Tucson time.

FINALLY slept.

HYDERABAD.

850pm~920am

Waiting for our Ride...

6/29/2010- New Delhi

OUTSIDE VIEW FROM DOMESTIC DEPARTURES

We have to wait till midnight to enter the main airport. Until then, we have to hangout @ the ticket counters. Or outside.

10:15pm

Also, saw a bat flying around out here. Not sure if it was one of those Indiana Jones "Giant Vampire Bats" though... ;)

6/29/2010: The Road to India- The Descent into New Delhi

PASSING INTO DARKNESS

23 Minutes Left, finally approaching "nightime"

7:19am

FINAL DESCENT.

New Delhi: 56 miles

13 hours & 48 minutes later

96*F.

7:31am

-Landed @ 745pm

ARRIVAL IN NEW DELHI

Tuesday

748pm

TAXIING

758pm

6/28/2010: The Road to India- Chicago to New Delhi Part 2

SHATTERED ICE.

Monday 9:24pm

Can we say, "GREENLAND!" ?!?

11:16pm/ 6:17am Greenland Time

THE EDGE OF GREENLAND FROZEN OVER

11:29pm

ICE, ICE BABY.

OUTSIDE AIR: -53*F

appoaching the Norwegian Sea

11:34pm

8hrs 23 minutes left.

The Flight Lady told me to close the window shutter so the light doesn't wake anyone since the path we're traveling on, the sun doesn't set!

-She may have had to remind me to close the shutter once or twice (or three times), but I'm sorry, seeing what it's like crossing over the top of the globe was too cool to check out.

FLIGHT TRACKER.

12:31pm Delhi Time

12:00am Tucson. 6/29/2010 Tuesday

Watched the "Two Weeks" episode of THE OFFICE, "Diary of a Wimpy Kid" -fell asleep, "Bounty Hunter" -fell asleep, "Edge of Darkness" -really fell asleep.

Oh, and ROCKED some TETRIS. Too bad I couldn't sleep for more than 20 minutes. Or is it??? :)

FLIGHT TRACKER.

Crossing over Lahore

706am

Time to New Delhi: 37 minutes

6/28/2010: The Road to India- Chicago to New Delhi

ROUTE

New Delhi: 7477 miles

Departed @ 557pm

Here we go!

AMERICAN AIRLINES

635pm

Watched CLASH OF THE TITANS (2010) right off the bat...fell asleep. 5 minutes later the stewardess woke me up for chicken, mashpotatoes, and dinner time.

MONTREAL.

2 hrs. 52 minutes and 54 seconds into flight.

841pm.

CROSSED OVER THE HUDSON STRAIT.

New Delhi: 5835 miles.

Altitude: 10058 meters

Local Time: 1157pm at present position

5,756 MILES TO DELHI

907pm

LIGHT BLUE CLOUDS OVERHEAD

920pm

10hrs, 43minutes left.

916pm