There are three girls, and 1 bed, and temper, and misunderstandings, and sweet domestic beer, and bad internet connections, and worse local cigarettes rolled in itty-bitty leaves. There is clothing scattered and drying on racks, a lovely Indian vegetarian dinner waiting at home for us every night, and a generator to fuel our AC and offer a refuge from the heat when the electricity goes out. There are street children that sell fragrant strings of jasmine flowers and smile gently, and others that grab at your hands and wrists, invasive and unrelenting.

There are elephants weighted with what must be a field of greenery, tied to their backs, and new Mercedes Benz's parading the streets with hired drivers together.

It's all very confusing. Not to mention our project. We're scrambling to pull of the financial resources to produce our film. We just fired our director. And I'm freaking out. I've got faith, but none of us have worked with film before, save for the one time I dressed up as a man and danced with men dressed as women wearing neon and glow-lights in my friend's class project.

Tonight heading to Mumbai (Bombay) with Puneet and my friend/project partner Sara. We'll come back Thursday and promptly head off for the mountains: see panchachuli.com for more insight into the organization we'll be working with.

Needless to say, I'm learning. And I think, really, that's the point.

Another photo by Punnu. My friend Lainie and I are cracking up. It's so silly, but I am frequently asked to be in photos with strangers- this family must have been doing touristy things in Dharamshala (location of the Dalai Lama's government-in-exile as well as his monastery) and thought the white people were just another part of the scenery....


>big fatty resigned sigh<
T


ps. UNCLE BILL YOU'RE THE BEST EVER AND I THINK YOU MIGHT BE MY ONLY ACTIVE READER. THANKS SO MUCH FOR THE MTARF :) XOXOXOXOXOXOXOXO. COME VISIT AND HIKE WITH ME IN THE HIMALAYAS SOON PLEASEEEEE. :) GIVE NELSON AND AUNT NIKKY A BIG SNUGGLE FOR ME AND SAVE ME A SPOT ON THE BOAT! :)