Lazy sunday

It's sunday, and it's raining outside so I figured I'd write in here. Yesterday I went out into Mysore for a little bit of shopping with some of the other american guys. It was pretty nuts, I haven't been out in an indian city in a while. I knew what to expect but it was still really crazy. All the people, rickshaws and motorcycles flying inches past you honking, and most annoying of all, people trying to sell you crap on the street. I think they pestered us more because the other guys are white, they didn't really bother me but it was still annoying to have them follow us around. They just don't quit even after you tell them no 500 times. Besides that it wasn't too bad. To make up for that though, we did buy some nice things.

We went to this cloth shop to get custom fitted clothes made. I ended up getting a white sand washed silk shirt and some half silk half cotton pajamas. We have to go pick them up on thursday, it should be nice. The guy there offered us all tea, he was pretty nice. He knows how to work with Americans for sure, he wasn't too pushy and because of that we all want to go there again.

We also went to this guy that sells incense. He also offered us this black tea with lemon, it was amazing. He also knows how to deal with Americans, he wasn't pushy at all. He also kept the other people that were trying to sell us stuff away from his shop. He invited us to sit down and he told us how everything worked. He had incense, colored powders and various kinds of oils. All the stuff he had smells amazing, it's what Mysore is known for. I bought some incense from him. I bought some naagchamp incense (smells like regular agarbatti) and some lotus incense, it smells like well...a flower on fire pretty much. I lit them in my room to get rid of this weird smell. I should be lighting them for the pictures of god I have on my desk as well though.

After all the shopping and walking around we went back to the cave restaurant for some more awesome food. We then took the bus back to campus. In my experience so far, the bus is the cheapest way to travel into town. It's 7 rupees to go into town and 7 rupees to come back. The bus stops right outside campus so it's convenient too. The only thing is, it's not the smoothest ride and you might have to do a little pushing to get on the bus on the way back.

It's been raining pretty much everyday now. It rains hard but only for a short while and then it stops. I don't mind the rain here though, it's not like a downer or anything. I like it, it feels like everything is being washed clean. It's nice seeing the flora on campus after it's done raining, it's refreshing.

Also, yesterday on this channel called Star World, they were showing an episodes of the Simpsons. It was kind of ironic actually. The episode they showed was where Homer takes a job in Bangalore to train the employees of Mr. Burns' new nuclear power plant over there. Mr. Burns outsourced the jobs from Springfield to Bangalore. Homer goes there and thinks he's become a "god" of the workers there. I thought it was funny because it's pretty much the same thing I did, except I'm the one being trained and not the trainer. I guess I'm not quite a god here yet either haha.

P.S. I kinda suck at haggling, I need to get better at it for sure.