Sunday, February 20, 2011

Delhi--Feb. 19

A new day and a new plan. Hamid is going back to Varanasi tonight and returning Monday morning, which means I theoretically have a chance now to meet some people and go out socially. First I am moving into a hotel in West Delhi because the owner of the condo is having a lot more of his family coming to stay so I have been bumped out. I rather prefer this actually, gives me a break, which I realize is an odd thing to say. I have been living on and off alone for a while now and I need some Jamie time which I have not been getting in India. Plus I have run out of things to say temporarily.

Cricket! The World Cup of Cricket starts today. Canada is in it, any know that? I was going to meet Rana tonight and go out for drinks however he ended up working late and those plans became postponed for tomorrow instead I wandered around the area surrounding my hotel. One of the areas I stumbled upon I felt for certain if it was dark instead of dusk I would probably get stabbed and robbed if not worse. very sketchy slum that had hundreds of drunks drinking cheap spirits incredibly quickly. The rest of my exploration was uneventful aside from running across six lanes of traffic twice; which was once again a little unnerving, I swear Indian drivers just want to hit a foreigner.

Grabbed a pizza and head back to my room around 9 expecting an early night with a movie or two on my laptop. After the long day of yesterday it will be nice to relax with Vargha's extensive movie library, plus without Vargha or Hamid and their snoring around I may just get a good night sleep. This plan lasted about an hour before I received a call from Julian who just so happened to have VIP at a bar across town so I hoped into an auto to meet him and do our own little pub crawl.

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