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Week 1 - India

People think that living in Goa India is all beaches, sand and sun…. but there’s a lot more to this place then you would think.

Once you step a few feet off the beach you enter a whole new world. A place filled with pigs running around eating trash, cows eating trash, water buffalo doing whatever they do (which I’m still not sure what that is?) monkeys jumping from tree to tree and breaking into peoples houses to steal stuff, kids playing and local man just sitting around waiting for something to happen, and for someone to do their work for them!

I kind of feel like Ace Venture the pet detective. There are all sorts of animals wondering around my house. Last night when I came home I found a white cow in my yard eating leaves off a small tree and some stray dogs sleeping on my doorstep. Today some monkeys broke into my house and trashed my kitchen and threw my brand new masala cooking spices all over the floor, not that I ever would have actually got around to using them since I don’t know how to cook. Also as I was taking a shower a water buffalo with their normal stupid face expression stared at me through the window as I took a shower. This place is starting to grow on me in a good way. Nothing here is what we would call “normal” and I love that!

In the first week of being here I have got myself a 2-bedroom house with a kitchen, Internet, cell phone, car and one nice tan! Not bad for one week!

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