Adam Barkl's Indialog

Random Stuff... and kittens.

It's been a while since I've written on my blog, so here it is. // This weekend, I didn't do much. I actually spent a decent portion of it writing my first paper. Not only was it extremely boring and disappointing doing research and writing papers again, but it was a little unexpected as well. It was the first time in India that I've felt like I was in school. This isn't because I'm not, just because school seems fake among the surreal experiences I've been having the last month and a half. // Today, we went to the city to spend the day. Nothing in particular was planned; it was simply a way to get away. It was a unpleasantly hot day (the first of many, many to come), so we rented a cab for the day to avoid the sick, choking heat of riding public transport. We cannot forget, Janne is Norwegian- she'll die under the harsh rays of Indian sunlight. It was a great day, very relaxing. We went to some coffee shop/restaurant called "Mocha", and I smoked from my first hookah (huqqa in Urdu speak). Don't worry mom, hookah smoke is flavored tobacco. Our flavor was rose-milk. That sounds odd, but it was fantastic. It's a pretty cool experience. While we were riding in the cab, I again had one of those moments when I was baffled by India. We were sitting in our cab, in the middle of an intersection, with cars and rickshaws crammed up next to us. As I looked around and listened to the noises, I again realized the constant life that goes on in Hyderabad. At every moment, in every space of the city, there is movement, noise... life. There are never moments without something happening. The city is always one huge, hectic life. The smells, sights, and sounds of India are a great thing. // Ivy broke the TV. // How are things in the US, and rest of the world? I want everybody who reads this to tell me... it will give me something to look at, and perhaps laugh.

Posted at 03:23PM Feb 12, 2008 by Adam L Barkl in General  |  Comments[0]