Diwali trip

I went up to my uncle's house in Gujurat for diwali recently. I just got back today. Diwali is a heck of a lot more fun in India than it is back in the states for sure. Lighting fireworks in the middle of the street and just celebrating with everyone is great. I think the real problem back home is that you celebrate diwali individually, not everyone in your neighborhood is lighting fireworks and divas in their windows (Unless you live in Edison New Jersey or something). It's no fun celebrating in isolation. I guess Christmas in India must feel like Diwali in America though. The last time I celebrated Diwali in India was 10 years ago so it was nice to be back for the occasion after such a long time.

The feeling of Diwali is a lot more festive than it feels back home, so I think that's what makes it more fun. I also saw the hindi movie Saawariya while I was up in gujurat too. That movie sucks by the way for anyone thinking of watching it. Another thing that sucked was that I forgot to bring my camera! I was bent on remembering it to take pictures of a Diwali of the likes of which I probably won't see for a while now. I did have my cell phone though so I took pictures with that. The quality isn't the best, but it's something.

Today is Sunday, this past friday marked week four in Chennai. Before I left Mysore they told us we'd be in production (office work after the training in Mysore) for about four to eight weeks. I'm going to try and get an exact date of return from the people here this coming week. As I've said before, there is a whole lot of things I want to see in India but I am ready to come home. I probably couldn't see all the things I want to see if I had 3 months to just travel so 4 months with having work interfering with traveling is definitely not enough time.