Journal 10-3-2010

Journal 10-3-2010

I had planned to get up early and run this morning, but that didn’t happen. I woke up at 8:30 when someone was knocking on our door telling us that we needed to come eat breakfast. It was nice to sleep in.

            After breakfast we decided to climb the mountain/hill behind the guest house. We found a trail that lead to some water towers at the base of the hill. We climbed the ladder to the water tower building because… well why not.

            The view from the top showed us where the hill was. haha

The climb was slightly harder than it looked. The hill is covered in thorny bushes and armpit high tufts of lemon grass. We made it to the top without too many problems… Leah got stuck in at least one thorn bush. The view from the top was impressive.

I could see the village houses that I ran past yesterday. We could also see mountains in the distance that we would like to visit if we get a chance. After we got bored with the view we decided to go down a different side of the hill. The trip down proved to be much more difficult than the climb up. Nobody was seriously hurt but John and Leah both had thorns lodged in various different body parts. I fell over into a soft and itchy bed of lemon grass at one point.

After we made it back to the guesthouse I made a peanut butter sandwich and some ramen noodles for lunch. Then I fell asleep.

In the early afternoon John and I decided to go into town. We took the only rickshaw parked at the Hospital to VIT. We found an Internet café across from VIT where we spent a few hours. I set up a Blog by copying and pasting my journal entries. The only problem with this approach was that the images did not transfer. This means that I have to go back in and edit the posts and add the pictures in individually. This is a pain in the butt but apparently the easiest way to do it. 

            After we finished up at the Internet Café we got a Coke and a Fanta at the 7 eleven (hahahaha) and got a rickshaw for 50 rupees back to Karigiri.

Now we are making ramen and peanut butter sandwiches for dinner. “We should really look into the student cafeteria” (Quote from John).