Journal 12-5-2010
Today John came to meet us in the morning at the awesome Internet café. We decided that we wanted to see Harry Potter in the afternoon. We spent most of the morning at the coffee shop and then went out to find a theater. We found a theatre in a mall about a kilometer away. The mall was really nice and probably 7 stories high. The theatre was also really nice, as Indian theatres always are.
John and I walked around to kill time before the movie. The girls went shopping. Unfortunately during this time I figured out that I was going to have to leave half way through the movie to make it to my train on time.
Harry Potter started off really well and I really want to see the end but I had to dip out right after the Intermission (ughhh Indian movies…) hahah. I took my backpack and found an auto. The drive finally figured out where to go, which was actually a really long distance away. So I ended up having to pay him 200 rupees. He demanded 300 when we got there and I said NO! but gave him an extra 30. I shouldn’t have done that though, and it bothers me that I did. Rickshaw drivers in Bangalore are constantly ripping us off. We got ripped off by all but one of the drivers we used. Even when we ask them to put it on the meter they will go way out of the way to charge us for the extra kilometers. It is really frusturating.
I waited around at the station for quite a while. Then got into a nice AC car, climbed into my upper, side bunk and read War and Peace until I fell asleep.
AC train cars are definitely nicer than sleeper cars. But there is no reason to have the AC turned on! It was freezing in there, all I had for warmth was a light sweatshirt and some socks.
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