Hello all!
It seems antibiotics have worked and I am making a full recovery! No bad tummy feelings today, just a little lingering weakness that should go away as I begin to eat more solid food again.
I had a very interesting day today, and as promised I will also include pictures of previous days as well as today! (usually I can't incorporate pictures on my tablet, but I"m trying something different today, we'll see)
Here is a picture of the church we saw the wedding in yesterday! It was a very large and beautiful church, but as you can see, no air conditioning of course >.>
A picture of all of us in our beautiful salwar kameez that we purchased the week before. I didn't really go with the theme, but I think we did well to at least try to blend in, though our outfits paled in comparison to some of the others we saw
The picture is a bit blurry, but you can see that there were lots of beautiful colorful saris and salwar kameez at this event. Women dress similar to this every day. They don't wear such fine or heavy material, but they are just as colorful, and riding through the city every day is like riding through a rainbow of color. Once I obtain more pictures I will make a post purely about the town and its inhabitants. After this of course was the great sickness, and then today, where my current pictures begin!
We woke up and arrived at breakfast this morning, to be greeted by Professor Relton, where he said he would take us to the big market today! We were very excited and eager to go, so off we went. First we went to the large market, where there were flower stands, fruit and vegetable stands, and many other miscellaneous stands (no meat stands, we'll get to that later).
Here is just outside of the market
It seems antibiotics have worked and I am making a full recovery! No bad tummy feelings today, just a little lingering weakness that should go away as I begin to eat more solid food again.
I had a very interesting day today, and as promised I will also include pictures of previous days as well as today! (usually I can't incorporate pictures on my tablet, but I"m trying something different today, we'll see)
Here is a picture of the church we saw the wedding in yesterday! It was a very large and beautiful church, but as you can see, no air conditioning of course >.>
The picture is a bit blurry, but you can see that there were lots of beautiful colorful saris and salwar kameez at this event. Women dress similar to this every day. They don't wear such fine or heavy material, but they are just as colorful, and riding through the city every day is like riding through a rainbow of color. Once I obtain more pictures I will make a post purely about the town and its inhabitants. After this of course was the great sickness, and then today, where my current pictures begin!
We woke up and arrived at breakfast this morning, to be greeted by Professor Relton, where he said he would take us to the big market today! We were very excited and eager to go, so off we went. First we went to the large market, where there were flower stands, fruit and vegetable stands, and many other miscellaneous stands (no meat stands, we'll get to that later).
Here is just outside of the market
Here we have an example of what many of the vegetable and fruit stalls looked like throughout the market
The whole market was covered by these colorful tarps, which added to the air of the market. Don't be fooled though, it was hard to maneuver around them sometimes, beeing taller than the average indian and all.
Here is another branch of the market, this time covered in palm fronds
These are banana leaves! Instead of plates, many people buy these and eat and store food on pieces of banana leaves.
We came across a few spice stands, the biggest of which is this one. So many spices!
Along with vegetables, there was a whole row of flower stands! These garlands that you see are used for funerals, weddings or any special occasion. Once we passed the vegetable market, we then entered the fish market (for those of you who like fish or don't wish to see fish, skip ahead)
Lots of fresh fish to be had here! Anything from fish that were 1-2 dollars a pound, to the expensive and apparently tasty "snakehead" fish that run 10-12 dollars a pound. And if you don't want to filet the fish yourself, kind gentlemen will do it for you.
Though we thought the fresh fish idea was great, the smell was a little overwhelming, but a very interesting experience.
As well, I was hit by a cow walking by. Here is my assailant (the bugger)
As we left the market, Dawn got this awesome picture of the town with Trichy's famous rock fort in the background. Also, props to Dawn for taking all of the pictures in this post, as I (of course) forgot my camera.
Upon returning, we ate lunch, rested and then ventured out to an ice cream place in town that the college has deemed safe enough to eat called Ibaco!
This place seems very american, and a little out of place when it is surrounded by this traditional Indian scene:
Regardless, we were very excited to be eating Indian ice cream!
After ice cream, we had some very well needed rest then learned how to play cricket from Dr. Relton's son, niece and neighborhood friends! They were very kind and it was really fun to play. We of course still had to stay modest, which explains my ever fashionable cricket attire. Our learning of cricket also explains my blog title. Har Har Har.
Aftewards, Griffith (the boy in the picture) was kind enough to take Dawn and I around campus on his two wheeler side saddle, like the rest of the women we see around the city!
I was pretty pumped.
Overall it was a great day, and a great improvement from being sick. Tomorrow begins week two of shadowing and another day of awesome experiences!
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