Got to play badmitton with the kids this morning. Worked up quite a sweat! The kids are wonderful constantly asking questions, wanting validation, helping me with Hindi words and there smiles and laughter there really isn't much better (except for the Trips of course;)). Again classes go by too fast. I was able to get online a bit, email, and blog. We are running off two solar power chargers. One is for phones and cameras and the other for laptops. So I get a charger every three days or so. Siddarth has a wireless usb that works great - just not quite fast enough to upload videos or skype. Siddarth is still very ill but manages to talk to me about spirituality. Everything I've read and studied, on a dusty porch on a quiet afternoon in just under a half hour. Pretty profound really. Around 3p, Bhola and I take a walk, more like a run, to the nearest market. Vegetables, spices, and nail polish;) A few of the girls from class two grab me and take me to one of the men selling wares on a blanket. Poospa, a natural saleswoman, then insists that I buy earrings and bindis too - only about .20 all together cents not bad. I had to stop at the bangles though. Bhola hands me a huge ghobi, or cauliflower, and I untangle myself from the girls. We walk over to get some alu, potatoes, and the crowd gathers again. In an instant there are twenty villagers around me. I start video taping and like Godda the laughter and smiles erupt. Some of the men start tying very nice turbans on their heads so it is time for portraits then? These will be uploaded next week. I hope you enjoy them as much as I did taking them. It's really hard to leave. I could stay and photograph and attempt conversation for hours but the sun is going down. The countryside is just so very beautiful and even as I write this ten days later I am overwhelmed by it. Talked about Indian history and Bollywood with Siddarth before dinner. Went to bed dreaming of Hrithik and the Aryans ... happy indeed;)
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