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dilemma, and more inane detail
Jan. 4th, 2006 03:57 pmToday has gone relatively well. It's been quite nice, actually, once i managed to psyche myself up to leave my hotel.
This morning i decided to get thoroughly lost. The plan was to walk around the city market area until i was lost, then catch an autorickshaw to the MG road area. At first i did quite well...i walked away from my hotel in the opposite direction to the one i usually travel in, and then started following monks. There are a heap of them around, in red and saffron and looking Tibetan enough that i am happy to assume that they are, in fact, Tibetan. After a while i ran out of monks, so i just wandered. I found a big undercover market, which had a flower market in it. the smell of marigolds everywhere! it reminds me so much of botswana, where my friends and i used to grow them in our backyard. i also saw:
an alleyway full of tailors (with hand-pedalled sewing machines) and knife-sharpeners (with manual machines run using bicycle wheels covered in little flourescent clackety-things),
a lean-to on someone's roof,
a guy in a t-shirt that said 'einstein simplified' that had three pictures - a detailed sketch of eintein, a less detailed one, and then a cartoon,
a 'delux pencil cup'.
amazingly, i failed in my mission because after a while i worked out that i was back near my hotel, so i went back and hung out there for a while.
some other things:
* today i used my first squat toilet. it was clean, so it was ok.
* i accidentally ordered a 'plate meal' for brunch, which turns out to be a huge thali-like affair (costing under $1, i should note).
* i am reading mrs dalloway, by virginia wolf, and you should too. you should read it, and then 'the hours', by michael cunningham, afterwards.
* i got my photos back! i have a couple of nice photos of torquay, and thailand (from the air), and a few of russell and i that made me laugh in the street as i was looking atthem. hooray!
* i did my first little bit of researchy-stuff today, apart from emailing people. not very impressive, but i took a couple of photos of a seed and fertiliser shop. i asked the owners if i could, and they look very amused by it.
so far, my favourite things about india are the food and autorickshaws.
my not-favourite-at-all things are not being able to chat to strangers when i feel lonely, and not being able to wander around alone at night (both of which i will be resigned to).
do you know all about my life in excruciating detail yet? but wait, there's more!
Now, here is a question:
Part A: I don't feel terribly comfortable continually buying bottles of water, yet i can't seem to find anywhere that sells water purification tablets. So much plastic going to waste...
This morning i decided to get thoroughly lost. The plan was to walk around the city market area until i was lost, then catch an autorickshaw to the MG road area. At first i did quite well...i walked away from my hotel in the opposite direction to the one i usually travel in, and then started following monks. There are a heap of them around, in red and saffron and looking Tibetan enough that i am happy to assume that they are, in fact, Tibetan. After a while i ran out of monks, so i just wandered. I found a big undercover market, which had a flower market in it. the smell of marigolds everywhere! it reminds me so much of botswana, where my friends and i used to grow them in our backyard. i also saw:
an alleyway full of tailors (with hand-pedalled sewing machines) and knife-sharpeners (with manual machines run using bicycle wheels covered in little flourescent clackety-things),
a lean-to on someone's roof,
a guy in a t-shirt that said 'einstein simplified' that had three pictures - a detailed sketch of eintein, a less detailed one, and then a cartoon,
a 'delux pencil cup'.
amazingly, i failed in my mission because after a while i worked out that i was back near my hotel, so i went back and hung out there for a while.
some other things:
* today i used my first squat toilet. it was clean, so it was ok.
* i accidentally ordered a 'plate meal' for brunch, which turns out to be a huge thali-like affair (costing under $1, i should note).
* i am reading mrs dalloway, by virginia wolf, and you should too. you should read it, and then 'the hours', by michael cunningham, afterwards.
* i got my photos back! i have a couple of nice photos of torquay, and thailand (from the air), and a few of russell and i that made me laugh in the street as i was looking atthem. hooray!
* i did my first little bit of researchy-stuff today, apart from emailing people. not very impressive, but i took a couple of photos of a seed and fertiliser shop. i asked the owners if i could, and they look very amused by it.
so far, my favourite things about india are the food and autorickshaws.
my not-favourite-at-all things are not being able to chat to strangers when i feel lonely, and not being able to wander around alone at night (both of which i will be resigned to).
do you know all about my life in excruciating detail yet? but wait, there's more!
Now, here is a question:
Part A: I don't feel terribly comfortable continually buying bottles of water, yet i can't seem to find anywhere that sells water purification tablets. So much plastic going to waste...