Journal 10-7-2010

Journal 10-7-2010

The morning on Friday was pretty uneventful. I worked on revising my project in the morning and spent some time reading more articles in the library. At about 4 John and I drove into town. We got some Calcutta rolls (egg rolls) they are like egg and onion rolled up in a tortilla. They are extremely tasty and only cost 15 rupees a piece. Then John needed to use the Internet too search for some papers so we walked back toward Sanjay’s shop. Kanav and S.K were at Sanjay’s and they wanted us to come swimming at a pool in Vellore with them. John had to work but I decided to go. We went to Kanav’s and picked up swimsuits then drove to Vellore. The pool was called Oasis it was VERY nice! It is a very big and wide rectangular pool. The pool deck was lined with coconut palms and we were the only people there. It felt great to swim in such a relaxing environment. I wanted to take pictures but Kanav made a rule that I had to leave my camera in the locker because they felt like they are out of shape and therefore didn’t want pictures ending up on Facebook.

Quite a while later we made it back to Sanjay’s shop. Where we called john to see if he wanted to get some dinner with us. To our surprise John was sitting in the back room of Sanjay’s shop using the Internet. Hahaha. Apparently Sanjay was lonely working all day by himself and had refused to let john go next door and pay for internet when he could have it for free at the shop and keep Sanjay company. John and I both found this hilarious because a few days ago we would never have imagined using Internet for free in the back of one of the shops so we could hang out with the clerk/owner.

John, Kanav, S.K and I then called Leah to invite her to come to dinner with us. John and I both feel really bad that she has been spending a lot of time alone. But when we called her she declined our offer to come pick her up in S.K’s car. So we ended up having a dudes night dinner. First we went to a poolroom in the back of a mall that I didn’t even know existed. All the pool tables were taken so we played snooker which I had never played before. After a couple of games we went to a really good pizza place, I think it might be called Little Sicily. To my surprise the restaurant was very nicely furnished and very clean. To top it off they were playing Mouse Hunt on a 32 inch flat screen TV. We ordered a ton of pizzas (we wanted some for breakfast tomorrow) and watched the Movie. It is really strange to watch TV after not having access to it for so long. Then the Pizza came, it was VERY GOOD it tasted like authentic Italian pizza. They even had salami as a topping, although it wasn’t very good salami (it may have been made out of chicken or something silly).

After dinner S.K and Kanav dropped us back off at Karigiri. The light was off in Leah’s room so she must have been asleep. We were really tired, John fell asleep right away, but I had to stay up and do laundry in a bucket for about an hour. I was completely out of clothes.