Mussoorie

Well I have gotten a couple of emails from people asking different questions about what the food is like and how people live here. I'm going to put it all in the next blog because I want to give people a chance to get new questions to me. Dad, don't send more questions cause I can't answer all the questions. I'll try to get to as many as I can, but the internet is shady sometimes and doesn't like me to be on for a long time.

We are in the mountains right now. Well what I would call mountains, they call these peaks which are bigger than a lot of the Rockies, foothills. I'd love to see the actual mountains. we took a train from Delhi to another town, I don't remember the name but I have decided that trains are the way to get around. They'll serve you Chai and biscuits plus you don't have to worry about getting hit by two scooters with burrow in between them. After the train ride we got lunch in a restaurant that is sorta like a Culver's. The drive up was one of the scariest experiences of my life. I thought that I would be okay with it because most of us have gotten used to the driving, but if you would imagine roads that are at most 8 feet wide being a two land road going up an almost thirty degree incline with traffic at about 40 km/hour. OH, I didn't mention that it was a windy road that had a drop off of a 1000 feet on one side. I'm not joking about the 1000 feet either.

We are staying at a place called Woodstock School, in their guest house. It is really nice, even compared to some of the places I've stayed back at home. A bunch of people got stung by nettles when we first got here because there were some right in the middle of the path. I got some but I saw the larger plant and avoided it. The schools that we visited today was a rural school, were the kids had to walk about 2 hours to get to school. BTW guess where they walked?? ON THE ROAD!!!!!! I couldn't believe it. They didn't seem to mind it too much but they thought we were pretty funny. We sang them a song in English and then they sang a song in their language, which we needed two translators to understand. I showed some of the kids how to dance and then they showed us a dance that they knew. I got it on video I'll post that tomorrow when I have the internet on my own computer. I'm really enjoying the wild life here, there are some monkeys but they are vicious. The birds make very different sounds than the ones that I'm used to at home.

Aman, our prof, started calling my Pappu, which is just a nickname for a boy. I think it is fun to say. I took so many pictures today that my battery died, but that is because I forgot to charge the it last night. The food that we ate today was so good but that is because we ate so late and were starving by the time it came out to us. Ellen, Steve and I had paneer, chicken, rice and roti. There was a lot but we ate every last bit of it. When we got back to the guest house the dinner was being served. Aman was the first down to the dinning room and yelled, "THEY'VE GOT MANGOS!!!!" One thing that you have to know about India, if you don't know anything else is that they are crazy about mangos. Aman will eat two at one sitting, mind you, mangos are like coconuts, if you eat too many, you'll be on the toliet for the night. I say that they have the mango mania, because if someone even suggest mangos we have to stop what we are doing and go and find some mangos. This week I've already had about four mangos. And yes they are that good.

Okay that's all for now. get the questions and put up some pictures tomorrow night.