Still in Delhi as I write this - we have one more night, and we have booked a flight to Goa tomorrow morning so, very excitingly, we will be in Goa by tomorrow afternoon! Excellent. Not that we are particularly hating Delhi this time round actually - we have become used to the noise and the sounds and the smells (oh, the smells...). We've delved into Indian street food with some fresh bamboo juice amongst other things, and delved straight back into non-Indian food by consuming copious amounts of lemon cake. It's been a nice couple of days, though we have had to make sure at least 20% of our conversations are intellectual (this morning, we tackled the economic stability of Germany in comparison to Japan) to make up for the ridiculous amount of shit/"BANTAH" that has seeped its way into our daily lives. This was totally encouraged and added to by phrases we picked up from Dave, Rob and Nick. We cannot now have a conversation without either reciting Gap Yah, or saying "Boycieeee?", "Haaaaaaay", "Shit son", "Ah shweeeeeeet", "Savage", "Abso-fucking-lutely", "Red four red four red four anyone for a red four? Red four red four... Black four black four anyone for a black four?" etc.etc., the list goes on, to the point where we can have an entire conversation without anyone else knowing what the hell we're saying. Hence our new resolution to ration our conversation so that we don't look like complete antisocial freaks.
Otherwise we haven't been up to too much. We went to the Gandhi memorial today which was really moving, and had some quiet time there to just reflect and learn and absorb. After our amazingly sociable last few weeks, it was calming to concentrate on something other than ourselves and our state of minds, pretentious as I'm sure that sounds. We also booked a flight to Goa - we could've got the train but to be honest we are more than a little bit over Indian trains, and since we only have a couple more weeks here we have decided to take the quicker option and fly. So our flight leaves tomorrow morning early and we will be in Goa by the afternoon which is fantastic - so very excited to hit the beach!
I mentioned in my last post that I'd been bitten by a dog - it's not serious or anything, the rabies shots were just a precaution. I don't think I have got actual rabies, although I am sharper than ever with the people that stop me on the street now ("Rickshaw?" "No, I have legs" ... "Where do you come from?" "The moon" etc.). I thought I would have to have five, but I went to the most hilariously ridiculous medical clinic in the world today (but amazingly efficient - I literally walked straight in and was seen by Doctor Gupta) and apparently I should be fine with just the two that I've already had, though he's taken a (very expensive...) blood test just to make sure I have enough antibodies in my blood stream, or something. Anyway, this is only a continuation of my crappy luck with foreign animals (cheetah, monkeys etc.) so it's not really surprising! But hopefully this will be the end of it and I won't need anymore jabs - I get the results back in a week by email. India can be remarkably efficient if you're willing to pay...
Anyway, I will stop there, because I need to pack up before our Goa flight tomorrow. Missing you all very much indeed, lots of love xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <3
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