Notes about India

India - the country of colorful women, impudent monkeys, crowded trains,international eye centers and bollywood movies- finally i visited you. Actually it really makes no sence to write about India, i truly believe that one should just visit this country at least couple of times to get the feel of it and to make his/hers own conclusion what India is all about.

Here i'll just post some random notes taken during my trip, cuz these memories are too precious to let them be forgotten :) No offence to any Indian people, in fact people there are great(It is just soooo different! that is why all the observations)

Well, to start:

Animals that i saw:  mice, cows, monkeys, goat puppies, skinny dogs, donkeys, horses,squirrels, lizards, rats, elephant, cats

Some picularities: head move, "only"(used in so many different occasions- "Are you going there only?", "We came to school today only"), information coming in pieces and asking for directions usually works from 3-4th attempt
-Is it a train to Borivili station?(train is almost leaving)
-Where do you want to go?
-We want to go to Borivili
-Oh,yes, this is the train. Where are you from?

Not knowing what when where how(seems that at any work place) , solving small things before big ones(oh, the lesson is starting, you have to go! You didn't have your chai?0_o . Ok, go have chai), rarely thinking outside the box, people walking barefoot just because :)

Funny signs: international eye center, urgent rubber stamp maker

First days:
coming back with manuel to his place and passing through slums, appartments without windows
fight with rat till 2 am in Greater Noida hostel room, meerut and my b day in indian family with cake in the face, going to the worship place at late night dressed indian, little girl teaching us indian dance

Rishikesh

Crazy mountain road,camping and indian dances till late night, rafting in Ganga, Lady putting bracelet on my hand in the street, tibetian shop and getting treated with chai and chapati, local food place and dinner for 25 rupees with trying the best sweets ever - that's how i got to know delicious Gulab Jamun, weird guys on the street wanting to "teach" me  tantra and yoga and probably to open all my chakras, local food place and 3 indian government man incisting on chai with them, made to swim in ganga by the whole women part of the family, staying in ashram and visiting super sincere and sunny old guy from meditation classes, self - madecooking classes in the ashram,  rikshaw with 12 people and indian music

Back to Delhi

I have never seen such a fancy mall in my whole life, Phrases from Blazhe: "give india a chance and if u can do it in india u can do it anywhere", train with  all meals included

Mumbai adventures

3 guys meeting us in mumbai, yeei, we are dance teachers, learning how to cross the road with a magic hand, fine arts school with express  flute lesson, chowpatty beach with rollercoasters and bhelpuri, marine drive - nice colonial houses, getting lost at 12 at night the first day,long indian gate and colaba walk - shops with purfumes and oils, blessed stones, beer in the small street and smelly docks, juhu beach

Matheran trip  - not being able to push into the train, artificially blond vanilla guy, monkeys in matteran stealing food, ride on toy train, horseman and pan makers- the main professions,

Navratti festival - yards with lights, shiny materials, dancing people young and old, a little girl taking us to the temple, food, making chapati, granfather with swastika, huge parrot, temple with food on the leaves after the school

Playing drums and singing worship songs at school, invasion of little 3-4 year old kids with alien faces on the stage while dancing class, weird night - rich people, nice terrace, brazilian diva, bolliwood stars afterparty, bachata dancing, liscence for drinking, red light district - kamathipura, guy trying to "show us around", exposure beds and ladies with  a "look", hanging gardens, seller chaging a religious book to kama sutra when he saw us, " nice baaaanganga tank, traveling in time - small colonial streets and old houses, psycodelic temple with Finding nemo pictures, physicial playing Om mantra, market in Borivili west with moving people and steady flowers, "student of the year movie"  - national anthem before the movie, got the sari blowse, passed by the temple before leaving to Goa and found temple grandmom  worried that we didnt come for so many (2!)days already, little girl taking us to the station on the rikshaw and getting us bunch of flowers, sleeping bus that looks like train inside the bus, going through mumbai for many many hours

Goa

Different air, buses decorated with flowers, Anjuna shopping: "come to see my shop" in the morning, "want some good hashish?" in the afternoon, great malai kofta, sunset and striped sky,
Long road to baga beach, many indian man , walk to Calangute, bus to Candolim, Uncle Tony bargaining,
making chai and showing us around, whistling man in the fort trying to get everyone out of there, Tiger restaurant with ugly toy tiger, supermarket with russian tourists,uncle Tony conversations, Chai with bread, bus to Panaji that broke, free ferry boat, small colonial streets and Park lane  hotel with many many rules, princess room with stairs, Vihar restaurant, bus to Dona Paula, photo session with a group of men, meeting portuguese Robin singing O sole mio, pescador bar, thank you many times, "roman valenca" - is a new Polish national heroe, " i will love you with permission only", cifa bar and caju fenny, "u dont know anything  about russia",

Chai with cookies ("why you left one? eat it. Now go" - you can't argue with indian housewives), Old goa,jesus movie, hitch hike to the temple, cucumber and watermelon on the leaf, bus to ponda, zombie people(taxi driver, longhaired dracula, little guy), icecream parlour(having fun ordering), udupi coffee shop with mitchi, trying to go to film festival, fenny in the cifa bar, hard times finding breakfast, miramar beach and amphitheatre of guys talking to us and trying to take a pic, stinky market and gujarati sweet place, bangladesh "art house" movie and movie about garden, special thali with many flavours, silent Joseph bar, bus to mumbai with last seats and bed bugs

Back to Mumbai

Straight to school after the bus, worried taxi driver, meeting nice library lady, offer to have Knor for dinner
Going to Chor Bazar,longest shop and bollywood star, green chili and ginger ice cream, No classes,noone cares, went to Colaba- synagogue,  vibrators on the street, art gallery with fingers sculptures, taj adventures, cafe paris, searching for a gay bar, no classes, nice Maxi sir, Chaia lady and probably biscuit guy, no movies - allowed men only , searching for ICCR, Chris on the bike, policemen offering chai, found Tata theather, 14th tale and hip hop shakespear, ride around marine drive singing, running from the cop, Maxalaxmi temple and the mosque,"dont break coconuts" sign, trying to have cadburry "job interview", cooking class with Shipra,

Village Mardes- Traveling brother of Savio, biology and farming lesson, floor from cow shit, marriage preparation, swings in every house, nicely renewed house of the "broom", smiling little girl,

Riding back and forth to buytickets, Gasia in Tata Literature live, wedding and being served first because of being foreigners, man jumping out of the train with the bucket of belhpuri on his head, looong walk for salary,
andheri, accidental walk in the slums, tribal route and oub shops and the things from ele poop and tetrapak boxes, fishermen village, long way back -waiting for buses, veg cutlet on the station, "dont ask,dont tell " show, chowpaty beach and the crowd of ppl - pictures, chai, massage, samosa, mats, little wise girl, color powders,bus ride to Pune with the bollywood movie, Russian clan + Ozzys clan,long ceremony,table tennis, kicker, lady pilot, karaoke bus with Ozzys, long talks about australia, old monk, ride to the bus stop from a nice neighbour, fined in Mumbai for riding local train without ticket(i had a gut feeling), taking shower in public bathroom, train station gradually filling up with people, playing with 2 kids X0 and drawing animals, train ride with 3 nigerian and 1 afgani men

Ride across Delhi for 1000 rupees of salary, random party, walk in CP and Diwali dinner, hiding in
the trainees flat from firecrackers -felt like war.

Adventure starts again

Bus to Karnal, 30year old virgin guy and interesting conversations, missed the bus stop, two ladies  without ticekts running across the road to tell the ticekt control guys about my situation to get me  a free ride to my stop. Trying to find rickshaw, 10 people walking after me offering me one. Finally there - Vipassana is starting. "Welcome my daughter, the food is ready", fun people,silence starts, wanting to escape, 10th day - we can speak- want silence again.

Night conversation with girls, helpful indian ladies and stop in Chandigarh in Veenas house, paneer masala, crazy bus to Shimla, people helping to find the hotel, evening tea with veg sticks, coooold, Morning walk to Monkey temple(yeeei! just 30 min up the hill -i am fit!),monkey trying to steal my camera, indian coffee house, bus to Mandi, little girl(or boy?) making faces and playing with me, weird guest house found by a boy from the bus, temples carved in rocks, wide river valley, seeing Himalayas closer

MC Leod Ganj

Tibet noodles and political prisoner talks, breakfast with supercoolview, butoh festival(not for  me:)), tibet library and canteen, very polite people, evening walk in honor of self-immolated people, english conversation class, Dalai Lama temple, and little buddhist temple where a nun gave me small Dalai Lama book, talks with shop owners, Huge porrige for breakfast and hike to a waterfall, we are stuck in the rain for half an hour near waterfall, hail,  peace cafe and yak cheese cake, movie about tibetian monks ("all this fuss about the endings, all this fuss"."football is 2 civilized countries fighting over a ball", "when is the fight?" at 23 p.m. - what a strange time to have a fight") Tea at indian place and uno cards till midnight

Breakfast at Peace cafe and long ride to Chandi - bus chaning tire on the way, Suchetas husband with  wise kind eyes, supercool wooden couch, dinner with Veena, rock garden and meeting the founder Nek Chand, coconut water, exibition of Indian goods and cooking aloo puri and Suchetas place. "Love is when passion is gone but you still can stay 24 h together without annoying each other"

Sancocho at Dominican consulate, skyfall, crazy shopping last minute and rickshaw to the airport


Wow, that's about it. All 2,5 months right here on this page. I'll be back. I know ;)