8/21/08 madolin room st. stephens

Yesterday my group had an extra hour before our home group started, so we decided to buy hot food and give it to beggars. I fed drug addicts, amputees, lepers, homeless elderly, and a couple elderly leper drug addicts, and a guy that was just hungry (he looked like Gandhi). we fed a couple with what looked to be a crack baby. Everyone was really appreciative (except some addicts who were just not there). It was a really good time. We didn't preach, we didn't beat anyone over the head with a bible... we just fed them and talked to them. We were feeding them in this pretty popular shopping area, and guys were singleing me out of the whole group to sell me hash pipes. I guess them Indians know a hippie when they see one.

Later we went to a thai family's house where they served us AMAZING Thai food, which included beef. Let me tell you.... god tastes goood after not eating one for a month. They sent the leftovers with me and Amy to take home. Amy asked Abel "isn't it illegal to sell beef here"..."yes I think so". we excepted it and took the contraband on the metro. indeed we were "beef traffickers".

I still haven't come to grips with being on the other side of the world. And I've concluded that the earth is flat, and if it isn't then it should be. I could just dig a little and jump back and forth from india to... well I don't know exactly where the hole would go to. but it would make trips like these cheaper. I've also decided that when I talk to April, she's not in america. She's in a parallel universe. But if she is in a parallel universe then that would mean she would be a dude... which would make me gay... UNLESS... I turned out to be a girl in her universe.. and she turned out to be the guy. Well I guess that means she wears the pants in the relationship from here on out.... mostly because when I get home I refuse to wear pants.

I ended up switching back to my old bed for 3 reasons... 1. The wind from the fan wouldn't hit that part of the room 2. there were so many mats, it sunk in a bunch and I figured that I would need a chiropractor after using it for 4 months.... 3. there turns out to be a mold issue on the wall over there which means I turned asmetic and couldn't breathe. I found this out after talking to April till 5am i figured "I'll just sleep 4 hours and then take a nap the next day"... well I went to bed, fell asleep for like 10 minutes, then woke up not breathing. I couldn't sleep all night because I couldn't breathe. the next day I was really looking forward to taking a nap, I tried and again I couldn't breathe. I walked across the street to the chemist and got a prescription inhaler without a prescription and was fine. after I moved back to my old bed I stopped having issues. then I realized there was mold all over that wall and that's what probably did it.

April had asked me how many homosexuals I had seen in Delhi... and I told her I couldn't tell because all the guys hold hands.

My roomie Mayang reminds me a little of Ben Vandy. Mostly because he talks about meat ALOT. Where he comes from in Nagaland he ate meat every day for every meal, so he's having his withdrawals from eating vegitarian 5 out of 7 days. Mayang said that his tribe two or three generations back were head hunters. They don't do that anymore, but they still kill and eat just about anything that moves. We were walking in this beautiful garden with tons of exotic birds flying overhead. "Wow would you look at those birds man!" I thought he was going to start Ooing and Ahhing over their beauty "I show you what we do if this were Nagaland..." then he pulled out his imaginary shot gun and proceeded to shoot the parrots, complete with sound effects.

We were walking by a cow in the road and I'm pretty sure he actually started salivating..."My goodness will you look at all that meat!! I tell you this, man, you will never hear of a Naga starving in india, if we got very hungry we would just kill the cow." His favorite meats are pork, beef and chicken. but he has much more variety than that. when he listed off meats that he ate on a regular basis(might not want to let Bret in on this one), the included were, bear, sheep, deer, bird, dog, rat, monkey, elephant, snake, and to Aarons envy, house cat.

He said when you go hunt a dog it's like guys night out. all the bro's start getting routey and go out on the street and kill a stray, bring him in and feast. He has a really really disturbing way of making it sound appetizing. I was actually craving some shiatsu by the time he was done.