Sun Rhymes With Fun.

Apparently even Rajasthani people consider these things "heat waves." By these "things" I am referring to the days where time spent in the sun is like time spent as an ant on a patch of tar outside the house where the 9-year-old with a microscope lives. Y'know? Needless to say, the days where I play football (soccer) in the mornings with Eli and a bunch of Indian University students and Ultimate after school with some members of our group, without sufficient time in the shade, is enough to send me to bed with a headache for an extended period of time. Time spent in class is becoming more and more of a test of physical endurance. Luckily, it's April and class is almost over. But how weird is that!? My last 2 exams are on the 10th and the 12th, then I have to finish up my 2 independent study paper's and by April 16th, it's all over. Crazy.

I've recently been informed about my extended readership (ie - people that read this blog to get the latest news on Eli, Remy, Michelle, or other members of our group). SO, without further ado about myself, here is a quick update:
Remy's beard was looking luscious today.
Eli was wearing his usual brown T-shirt. Lookin' good.
Michelle Ball helped set up an easter egg hunt with our group in Udaipur (the town where we spent last weekend). It was good. I think I won.

Also, Alexia and I got to attend our first Indian wedding last week with our Indian parents. It was unbelievably extravagant. There was enough food there for a small city, and there was about the population of a small city in attendance. Very cool.
A group of us (Remy, Matt, Olivia, Steph, Abra, and I) also had a great adventure to a village about an hour from Jaipur last week. We ate lunch in a small house with the family of a man (named Monu) Remy had met on campus, had an impromptu volleyball game (where Remy had to ceremoniously cut a red ribbon and give a speech to all villagers in attendance...hilarious), and visited some of the sites with a jeep full of our "escorts." With traditional Indian hospitality, we were stuffed with food, treated like royalty, and not allowed to pay for anything. We also became the centre of attention for various crowds of curious people. It was a fun, but very hectic, excursion.

In other news, Eli and I have a train ticket for April 17th from Delhi to Kolkata. We'll be heading to volunteer with the Missionaries of Charity and hang out in that crazy city for a few weeks. Should be awesome.