Yesterday and today we went on day trips, albeit rushed day trips, yesterday we broke down and went to an Italian place for lunch. Mark, one of the students on the trip is Italian and he was enjoying himself beyond all belief. The tiramisu was excellent!!!! It was something that wasn't as spicy as we had been getting. After lunch, we went to the National Museum of Art. Unfortunately, I didn't bring my camera in to the museum because it cost like 300 Rs. which is about $6. Some of the student did and they got some pretty good pictures of the art from ancient India. I really enjoyed the weapons and the naval portion of the Museum. They showed some of the battle gear that was ornately decorated for kings. There were also portions of the museum dedicated to different religions that were present in India. Lots of statues of the Hindu gods! After that, we went to Indira Gandhi's Memorial and learned a little bit about how she affected the Indian government. She was the first woman Prime Minister of India. It was pretty neat to know some of the history of present day India. The trip there felt rushed and I would have like to stay and read some of the news articles concerning her life and death. Right after we left the memorial a caravan for an Indian dignitary went by and the police shut the road down. Which caused us to be stuck in traffic again, but this time Aman didn’t have to pick up a car with his super human strength. After class today we went to an Indian restaurant that one of the IES directors took us to. It was really delicious and not to spicy, I think there were 6 different styles of meat and a lot of naan. I really enjoyed the mutton. After lunch, we went to see Mahatma Gandhi’s memorial. I thought it would have been more fancy. But it was just a square slab of rock with flower petals on it and a flame burning. We all had to take our shoes off for respect, so we were standing on marble that has been heated by Delhi’s heat barefoot. Aman had to leave for today, abandoning Gauri to handle 19 of us alone. I think that she was getting stressed by leaving someone behind and because of the heat. As a side note, it got up to 110 today. As soon as we got back I started doing laundry, Indian style, a.k.a. by hand. Luckily, the heat made the drying time short. Tonight we had McDonalds deliver, yes the deliver, us some sandwiches. I had a Chicken Maharaja Mac, sorta like a big mac except with chicken and some type of sauce on it. With dinner we watched an Indian movie. Their movies are like 3 hours long…average. I was falling asleep through it. There has been a group of us, who like to get up in the mornings to run or exercise. Mainly because its only 90 then, but also because there isn’t anyone else out and the girls that go with us can wear shorts. But lately we have been playing Cricket. We’re getting better at actually hitting the ball. We still suck but we’ve definitely made improvement. It is difficult, because we’re all used to baseball and swing the bat doesn’t transfer from baseball to cricket. I won’t even try to explain cricket to those that don’t know, because it took three wiki articles, and ten youtube videos for me to really understand it on the most basic level.
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