- Woke up at 7am
- Read the word and prayed
- Showered and dressed
- Fell back to sleep until 9.30am
- Met Rachel, a youth worker at Vacation Bible School where I will be working
- Went to the office
- Raj, Barnabas, Nandu and I travelled over an hour on bikes to visit a posh part of town where we will doing an outdoor activity day for rich kids.
- Good facilities for Indian standards
- Came home and went out on my own.
- Came back to Raj’s
- Met Manoj, AWESOME GUY
- Went into town had lemon tea, some zulfi (frozen yogurt) and some lime juice
- Played songs and talked
Walking around Bangalore on my own at night was something I would never had done on the first night I got here. Now I feel more comfortable. I walked into a shoe shop and asked for size 14 sandals, to my surprise, they had some. He said they were real leather, although they didn’t look it, and that they cost 400 rupee (which is about £6). I said, ‘No thanks’ and he said, ‘Why? What happened?’ and I said, ‘because I don’t like them.’ I think he swore at me in Kennada, but I had already walked off by then, so more fool him.
It’s so flipping hard to cross the road because everyone is in such a rush to get places!
I found a Barista coffee shop and as soon as i walked in two young girls saw me and started giggling and nudging each other. I like to think that they found me strikingly handsome, but in reality they were probably just laughing at how funny I looked to them.
I haven’t seen another white person all night and feel a lot like a foreigner. However, everyone is really friendly and polite and I find that they don’t stare until they have passed you. Then they stop and turn around to watch you.
I’ve found anothe
r western thing; Pizza Hut! The menu is slightly adapted for Indian cuisine, but the principal is the same, just so much cheaper. I can get a regular pizza for around 70 rupee (less than a pound)! This is so reassuring just to find something I know, even though I am having a of trouble understanding the waitress.
By the way, I’d just like to say, ‘I can’t stop sweating!’ Being a hygiene freak, this is a problem for me. However I do fins reassurance in the fact that Raj and Nandu are also struggling in this 40 degrees onslaught.
Should I be drinking this much cold pepsi?
Manoj seems like a really cool guy. He said it was good to see that I was so open and relaxed to talk. He said most English keep to themselves and don’t talk like I do. I said it was probably because they were so overwhelmed by their surroundings and quite scared being in an unknown culture. He was brought up a Christian and said he didn’t know much about other religions and found them quite foolish because they worshipped things like monkeys, dogs
and even penis’s! I asked him what it was like being a Christian in a place surrounded by so much religion and diversity. He said it was really hard because he’s constantly being challenged and also subjected to lots of scrutiny. Hmmmmmm.....
I played a lot of western songs to Manoj and Raj, which I think they really enjoyed. I even played a bit of ‘Take That’ which they loved. It was good to spend time chilling with them and share my passions and interests.
- Read the word and prayed
- Showered and dressed
- Fell back to sleep until 9.30am
- Met Rachel, a youth worker at Vacation Bible School where I will be working
- Went to the office
- Raj, Barnabas, Nandu and I travelled over an hour on bikes to visit a posh part of town where we will doing an outdoor activity day for rich kids.
- Good facilities for Indian standards
- Came home and went out on my own.
- Came back to Raj’s
- Met Manoj, AWESOME GUY
- Went into town had lemon tea, some zulfi (frozen yogurt) and some lime juice
- Played songs and talked
Walking around Bangalore on my own at night was something I would never had done on the first night I got here. Now I feel more comfortable. I walked into a shoe shop and asked for size 14 sandals, to my surprise, they had some. He said they were real leather, although they didn’t look it, and that they cost 400 rupee (which is about £6). I said, ‘No thanks’ and he said, ‘Why? What happened?’ and I said, ‘because I don’t like them.’ I think he swore at me in Kennada, but I had already walked off by then, so more fool him.
It’s so flipping hard to cross the road because everyone is in such a rush to get places!
I found a Barista coffee shop and as soon as i walked in two young girls saw me and started giggling and nudging each other. I like to think that they found me strikingly handsome, but in reality they were probably just laughing at how funny I looked to them.
I haven’t seen another white person all night and feel a lot like a foreigner. However, everyone is really friendly and polite and I find that they don’t stare until they have passed you. Then they stop and turn around to watch you.
I’ve found anothe
r western thing; Pizza Hut! The menu is slightly adapted for Indian cuisine, but the principal is the same, just so much cheaper. I can get a regular pizza for around 70 rupee (less than a pound)! This is so reassuring just to find something I know, even though I am having a of trouble understanding the waitress.By the way, I’d just like to say, ‘I can’t stop sweating!’ Being a hygiene freak, this is a problem for me. However I do fins reassurance in the fact that Raj and Nandu are also struggling in this 40 degrees onslaught.
Should I be drinking this much cold pepsi?
Manoj seems like a really cool guy. He said it was good to see that I was so open and relaxed to talk. He said most English keep to themselves and don’t talk like I do. I said it was probably because they were so overwhelmed by their surroundings and quite scared being in an unknown culture. He was brought up a Christian and said he didn’t know much about other religions and found them quite foolish because they worshipped things like monkeys, dogs
and even penis’s! I asked him what it was like being a Christian in a place surrounded by so much religion and diversity. He said it was really hard because he’s constantly being challenged and also subjected to lots of scrutiny. Hmmmmmm.....I played a lot of western songs to Manoj and Raj, which I think they really enjoyed. I even played a bit of ‘Take That’ which they loved. It was good to spend time chilling with them and share my passions and interests.
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