JUNE 5, evening
Today we had a real treat - our bus driver hardly honked the horn. On Sunday, he was averaging a honk every 4 seconds. Ross, was going to have an aneurysm from all the honking.
In India, because of the sheer volume of street traffic - pedestrians, cars, rickshaws, motorcycles - combined with the narrowness of the roads, drivers have to honk to make sure people know that they are cmoing, so, well they don't get runned over. It just seemed that our driver had a horn fetish and felt this compulsion to keep honking. Over. and Over. and Over. Again.
Today was our first day at the build site. It was hard work. We were moving sand from one pile to another because the dump truck couldn't get to where it was needed. We had to break up this hard red clay that was used to fill up the foundation of a house. The work was very hard and very tiring.
I think that the time zone change finally caught up with me, so I just crashed when we got back to the hotel. Well, after I watched "My Best Friend's Wedding."
The food situation is very interesting from my point of view. For starters, I'm only being provided with 3 meals a day - normally I eat at least 5 to 8 meals in any given day. Thankfully, I brought almonds and raisins to tide me over on the worksite since meals are served about 6 hours after each other. On days, when I'm at work, I normally eat at least every 2 to 3 hours, so having to wait 6 hours for a meal is real shock to my system.
Today we had a real treat - our bus driver hardly honked the horn. On Sunday, he was averaging a honk every 4 seconds. Ross, was going to have an aneurysm from all the honking.
In India, because of the sheer volume of street traffic - pedestrians, cars, rickshaws, motorcycles - combined with the narrowness of the roads, drivers have to honk to make sure people know that they are cmoing, so, well they don't get runned over. It just seemed that our driver had a horn fetish and felt this compulsion to keep honking. Over. and Over. and Over. Again.
Today was our first day at the build site. It was hard work. We were moving sand from one pile to another because the dump truck couldn't get to where it was needed. We had to break up this hard red clay that was used to fill up the foundation of a house. The work was very hard and very tiring.
I think that the time zone change finally caught up with me, so I just crashed when we got back to the hotel. Well, after I watched "My Best Friend's Wedding."
The food situation is very interesting from my point of view. For starters, I'm only being provided with 3 meals a day - normally I eat at least 5 to 8 meals in any given day. Thankfully, I brought almonds and raisins to tide me over on the worksite since meals are served about 6 hours after each other. On days, when I'm at work, I normally eat at least every 2 to 3 hours, so having to wait 6 hours for a meal is real shock to my system.
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