India

6 months living in India and I’m not sure how I feel, its hard to understand or describe this place. India is not a country, it’s not a place…. It’s a state mind. I think as an outsider “foreigner” you can never really truly get under the skin of India. There is just soo many crazy, strange, different, stupid, beautiful things here its hard to even scratch the surface.

This was my 5^th trip to India and the longest and I have to admit that India beat me this time. But I am not leaving a loser, I have learned a lot over the last 6 months. I now truly appreciate the western world for all of those rules and systems that I used to think I hated. Life without logic, reason and functionality is 100% pure chaos!

I’m looking forward to going to a print shop and having the order come out right and on time, I’m looking forward to having someone tell me they are going to do something and they actually do it! I’m looking forward to ordering food and getting what I ordered.  But most importantly I’m looking forward to something new, something challenging and something that’s rewarding.

But India wasn’t all bad and negative, during the last 6 months I have spent a lot of time really enjoying the outdoors with friends. I think the problem was trying to mix business and pleasure.

Anytime you leave a place there is always things you will miss and not miss. Here is my list:

What i won’t miss

- power cuts

- water cuts

- internet cuts (i pay $70 for “high-speed internet which works 40% of the time, and if its high-speed then i can walk on water and have 3 dicks!)

- indian drivers

- indian drivers that love to flash their high beams at you to almost make you crash

- indian drivers that drive with no lights at night because they think its better on gas

- driving on the wrong side of the road

- road hazards including: cows, water buffalos, sleeping dogs, dogs humping, people, people sleeping in the road, monkeys, chickens, pigs, the one legged guy down the street and the guy with no legs on the skateboard

- ants in my bed, ants in my food and ants in my pants

- coconuts falling

- crows

- mosquitoes

- the humidity

- fire crackers

- indian food (for a bit)

- hindi music that my neighbors blast at all hours

- the fact that the maximum you can withdraw from the atm is $200

- indian tv

- indian cell networks

- headphone parties

What i will miss

- indian food including: chicken tikka masala, cheese naan, seafood biryani, seafood fried rice

- fresh calamari at turtle beach

- anything cooked at dropadi

- my black enfield

- random motorbike rides into the jungle

- the beach

- the sun

- frisbee (getting pretty good after 6 months)

- old monk

- karan & Jess

- Coffee (not the drink, the dog)

- Loveheart (although loveheart is dead, so i guess i would miss him anyways)

- Rocky

- coconut & pineapple boys

- my monkeys

- my roof

- my hammock

- the ocean breeze

- coconut man

- gosh the beach guru that lives in a cave

- watching the trains go over the bridge near my house

- my maid

- the fat cow down the street that i call big girl (which looks like the actor Michael Clarke Duncan if he was a female cow)

- and probably the most important…. the pure beauty of this place!

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