Transportation/Family

So far today I have been on a hand drawn Rickshaw,Tram,Bus,Auto(aka Tuk Tuk like on the amazing race),Metro Subway, Taxi and soon to be on a train.. pretty mental. Very cool though. Bonny took me around to some markets... I even went to visit the Competition... Music World.. it was WILD, it has the pep like an HMV but all Bangla music and DVD and all this staff here to help... you cant imagine what I bought (amongst some others)....

Indian Idol Vol 2 (insert busting a gut laughing here)

Aslo we went to the national musieum here which was amazing. Lots of old Indian/Bhuddist/etc relics.. this place needs a map to navigate though and there is a central court yard in the middle. Of course I had to pay the foreigners fee of 150R and Bonny paid 10R.... I tells yah they gouge the money out of you here... well thry try to.

Also today I met some more relatives.. everyone lives around the area and in the buildings. I was taken on a tour of our ancestors house next door which was wicked. ITs about a hundred and some years old and Bonnys Great gandfather built it back in the day.. it looks like old ruins but there are is still a family living in there.

I have been making a consious effort to speak bengali here too. All of them want to talk to me but its been hard, its getting better though. There is this couple here popo and Puupi I call them. They would be like a distant great aunt and Uncle for me. They are both around 80 years old and they never had any children and Pop told me that she treats me like shes her own which is sweet. Puupi has parkinsons disease in his hands and I didnt think he knew any english so all I would say to him is "how are you" in bengali.... tonight he came up to me (he can barely walk) and started telling me about himself and how he used to work in a drafting office for steel structures for 40 years untill he had to retire becasue of his hands.... I dunno. it was pretty damn cool that he made the effort to spek in engligh to me since he could barely say anything...

Anyways.. I'll hit the blog up in about 4 days after Bubaneshwar.. We are hitting the beaches and the Suntempe of Konarka (I think its the sex temple too)..

Ciao...

(ps Damn you anti Malaria Pill!!!!)

I miss ya'll there.. Tis been quite the reality check here, you have no clue how good we have it in ye old Canada.....