What to say?

What to say? How to say it? I don't know. Maybe that's the problem. Maybe not. This place overwhelms me. Sights, smells, sounds, tastes. The land of everything. The fattest people, the skinniest people, the poorest people, the richest people, the brightest colored clothes, white suits, black burquas, Hindus, Muslims, Jains, Buddhists, Sikhs, Catholics, Protestants, Jews, dark people, fair people, the spiciest food, plain rice, the most hospitable people, the most rude people, the dirtiest cities, the most beautiful mountains. I'm inadequate to share. Photos don't do the job. Wordless Wednesday is lame. My vocabulary is too finite. I'm forgetting how to speak. My mind races on sensory overload. What to say? Nothing. I'll just post the photos. Curious minds, please question. Comment when you can find the words.

Wordless Wednesday

Wordless Wednesday

Mom and Shelly in the Garden City

In no particular order... pictures from their view.
ladies working at a souvenier shop
my mom and my friend's mom
Commercial Street, oldest mosque in city
Shelly
kids after meal at a tuition/feeding program
boy
family that lives in the slums, avg. 10 people live in this room with no running water
ladies from the slum at hygiene presentation
cows crossing the road
auto ride
threading eyebrows

Wordless Wednesday

Part 2

mehendi, matching bangles, and the ring he gave her

the sweetest baby...even though she pooped on me!
little Sunny....so SMART!
bride to be

A Friend's Engagement

The girls with the bride and groom to be. There were so many cameras and people...I don't know if anyone really knew where to look!
The guys + bride to be

Feeding her a sweet...it looks like she was scared!
with his family
with her family
the girls again
bride to be
presents in her lap, mark on her head
some of the guests...standing room only!

A Month's Worth of Wordless Wednesdays

old photo

My cousin sent me this picture the other day. :) Baby in the pink = me, man in the blue holding me = my daddy (I miss my daddy), the lady (or head of the lady) with the glasses = my mom (I miss her too, but she's coming to visit me in 18 days! Yipee!), the girl in the red pants and striped shirt with her arm randomly raised = my aunt Jessica (she just sent me some super cute photos of her kids Mekenzie and Colby...my friends here say that they are the cutest kids they've ever seen and wish they could pinch their cheeks. Jess and uncle Jamie..I miss you too!).

random rambling

Saturday.....Saturday I needed a Roslyn day. I slept 'til 10, had my breakfast, rode my bicycle around the neighborhood for an hour, and returned home out of breath, just in time to catch the plant walla (seller guy who pushes a cart full of plants around until he sells them). I ran up the stairs to get my money and returned to the street to purchase two matching pink/purple/curly/leafy plants to set outside our door. Then, I rode the 3 year old twins that live downstairs up and down the street on my bicycle. I showered, dressed in my favorite clothes, and went downtown with four of my national friends and my roommate to see a movie. The movie: Jodhaa Akbar. A Rajput (Hindu) princess marries a Mughal (Muslim) emperor in order to form an alliance between the two families. Battles on elephants, sword fights, love story, beautiful jewelry, humor. Excellent. Male and female alike should watch.....and there aren't any sketchy dance scenes. After the movie, the 6 of us had dinner at a delicious place near our houses. After the meal, I strategically declined the sweet/palate cleanser which my roommate naively accepted. She ate it, the whole thing in one bite. A shiny leaf folded up with stuff inside, sandwiched between to cherry pickle things, held together by a toothpick. On the walk down our street to our house, my lovely roommate said, "It tasted like I just ate India. The smells from outside, incense, everything combined in one bite." mmm.