Play It Once More, Bangalore!

December 13, 2008

Today was our last Saturday in India.  I can’t even believe it.  I didn’t do all that much today.  I spent the day thinking about what I want to say during my presentation on Monday, but I didn’t get any real work accomplished, but that’s okay.  I have all day tomorrow to get stuff done.  I’m definitely still a college student.  Using my Sunday to finish what I should have done today. 

Six of us went into Bangalore this afternoon to do some shopping and then meet with the rest of the group for one last group dinner. We are definitely becoming pros at this now.  We rode the bus into town and got out at the night stop and everything. We walked around the crowded city.  I almost got run over on several different occasions, but when doesn’t that happen here?  I never thought that I would be able to get around this massive city without a guide but we did just fine.  We even found what we were looking for and didn’t have to ask for directions at all.  We are so awesome.  I tried to use up what was left of my rupees but I didn’t see too much that I really liked.  I guess that I’m going to have to go back to the city at least one more time before we leave.  We finally arrived at the restaurant and had dinner.  It was pretty good and it was nice to have everyone together for a nice meal.  Except Auzzie, because she decided to go on a date with some random guy she met.  How nice of her!  The best part was that she never came back to Visthar tonight and is still gone.  I hope she’s okay.  Anyway, we had fun without her.  Brianna, Jesse, Erin and I decided that we were going to do a little more shopping before we left the city for the night.  We had a lot of fun walking around the city.  The funniest thing happened to us on the way back to Visthar.  We hired a rickshaw to take us back and it was awesome.  The roads are really bad on the way to Visthar and the driver didn’t know it before.  We got to the unpaved section of the drive and our driver started saying, “ahhhhhhhhahhhhhhhahhhhh.”  It was hilarious because we were going over bumps and he sounded like a little kid riding his bike on gravel.  I was laughing so hard.  He didn’t stop doing it the whole time.  I thought that I was going to pee my pants.  Only in India.  What an awesome night!