My Friday

Well I wasnt planning on blogging so quickly after just blogging but I feel like a lot happened today.
I started my day off by going to Vishwas and celebrating Felseys birthday with watermelon and a spicy treat with chutney on the side. This chutney had coconut, chili pepper and some other stuff too :) Then I was able to talk to one of the older men there who spoke really good English. He has 2 sons, one in Australia and one in Kuwait. So then I was sitting there in my pajama pants (which I recently found out that the pants that I wear every week to field placement are basically sweat pants or PJs. Thanks guys for telling me. hahaha ohh India) when Olinda, the director, asked me what I was doing. Well, I had been sitting on the couch talking and twidling my thumbs for a while and she had been watching me so I was a little confused at the situation. So I just mumbled something incoherent. This is when she invited me to a Hindu wedding...in 5 minutes. Hahaha so of course I went :)
At 12:30 we left for this Hindu wedding which was supposed to start at 12:20, so naturally we left at 12:30. IST time. Indian Standard Time also equals Indian Stretchable Time. We arrived and the bride actually came right up to us. I found out later this was interesting because Hindus usually just sit on the stage and don't interact with the guests right away. This bride was from a tribe but had become educated and was getting married. It was an arranged marriage. She is doing really well for herself and has gone through a lot of schooling. Her tribe used to be in the jungle a while ago but now they are integrating more with others and that's how she was educated. So then the actual ceremony was sometime in the past 5 days, it was apparently a 5 or so day celebration. So we got there and went up to the stage and sprinkled rice on each of their heads and then shook their hands to give them our congrats. Then of course, we got our picture taken with the bride and groom on stage. Sadly I did not get this picture but they had a professional photographer taking them....so I will forever be in their wedding album...in my PJS. the white girl who came to their wedding. :) But then we ate delicious food and left. We ended up only being there for maybe 50 minutes or so but it was really neat seeing all the colorful and sooo beautiful sarees.
Then I went back to Vishwas and I got to watch a guy climb a few coconut trees. The house across the street was having some of the coconuts taken down because they fall onto the house and cause a ruckus of sorts. I'm actually not entirely sure that is what was going on but that's my hypotesis. I tried asking some people and no answers were given. The people saw me creeping on them and offered me some mango though. sweeet!
After that fun thing I went home, tried to pack, failed, then returned to Vishwas for dinner. Annie and I went over and we ate with Olinda, Jacinta, Selina and this guy who is a law student in Mangalore. It was a nice little dinner with yet again, delicious food! yum! We had chicken with something curd-like on top, this rice dish with cashews and rasins in it, a curry made of dates and onions nad rasins and other stuff and we had homemade wine. Everyone makes their wine here.
Now its night time and I only have tomorrow until 7ish at night left here in this house...and guess who still has a loooot of packing to do? Hmmmm. Well, I shall sleep now and pack tomorrow. Then Bangalore here we cooooooooooooooome!