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Whuddup people,

So I am not starting work until Monday. Since things may get pretty busy this weekend, I decided to write another post, as it may be a while since I write again.

I arrived at Delhi yesterday and was picked up by 2 AIESECers! Once I reached my apartment in Lajpat Nagar (where I am staying in Delhi) I was amazed to see how many Trainees there were here. In the building I am staying in, the 3rd floor's 2 apartments are totally owned by us AIESECers, and holds 17 people! So after lugging my 3 bags (hey im staying here for a year ok!) up the 3 flights of stairs, I was dead tired! The weather here is unbelievably hot! Anywho, I met some of the board members from AIESEC-Delhi University, who were very very nice, and some of us trainees and the AIESEC-DU'ers all went out to eat some traditional Indian food - McDonalds. We hung out there for a while then headed to a Trainee party for a Trainee leaving on Monday.

I was so amazed at how many people came to the party! It turns out that weve got about 60 trainees here from all over the world staying in 7 apartments!!! Together we have Trainees from Chec Republic, Hungary, Turkey, America, Greece, Colombia, UK, Canada, Poland, China, Japan, Mexico, Romania, Italy, New Zealand... AND MORE! For those of you AIESECers reading this, this place legit is like living in a live Global Village!!

Everyone here is amazing, and I am learning so much! Today I just chilled and watched a movie with a Polish girl who couldnt go to work today cuz she hurt her leg so we had some fun today.

Aparently the clubs here love foreiners, so if we go to the bars tonight (not really me since I fit in, I more mean the white girls ;-) we get can in for free (otherwise they have crazy expensive covers - like $20) and the drinks are on the house. Oh on a random note the girl to guy ratio is like 60:40, and everyone seems to be attractive, so we are in good hands.

Everyone here influences each other, as we all put our fingers together and point them into the sky like were italian, we allll nod our head from side to side as a way of saying yes, and it seems like everyone here speaks Spanish which is great cuz it allows me to practice my Spanish!!! After hearing everyones cool accents, I feel so boring speaking in my american Accent!!

Ok enough for today people!

- Munj

Delhi

Hey guys!!

So just to getcha guys caught up with everything so far. I left the US last Sunday, and arrived to Bombay (Mumbai) on Monday. I spent 2 days and 3 nights in Mumbai. On day one I went to my grammas (from my moms side) house in Juhu to meet gramma. She is the cutest 82 year old lady in the world! When I arrived she was chillin on her swing set (its called a hichko in gujarati) and she was very happy to see me.

After eating I hung out with my nephew Avi. He is literally the cutest 2 year old ever - he loves toy cars and trucks, and hates teddy bears and stuffed animals... yah hes the ultimate man.

Next I traveled to see my cousins from my dads side by going to see them at their office.

At night time I met up with V-pizzle and Rupizzle, and went out for drinks with the other Mumbai Trainees living in their apartment. We went to a relatively inexpensive bar called Soda and had a really good time. (Random Note: The girl V's next to is from Tanzania! Yup, it really does exist)

The next day (wednesday) I hung around with more family, and then at night time I went out with V, Rup, Pratik (yup P-daddy was in the house) and my family friend Vrinda. On the way to Vrindas house we got lost and had to walk down this super dark ally in the rain which was scary as hell. Anywho, She (Vrinda) took us out to a really classy place called Zenzi. THE LAMEST thing you will ever hear is that bars/clubs close down in Mumbai at 1:30PM. I didnt know this, had I known I wouldda pounded more than 3 beers before we left. On the way to V and Rups Trainee house, Rup was able to ride an auto (riksha) which was pretty funny.

Before I left the boys to head home with Vrinda, we took the following picture, which could be our last harrah, as I dunno when us four will ever be back together again in the future... Sad...

I went to bed at 4AM and woke up at 7AM. Its weird, for some reason I can't sleep in India so far, but I think it was because I only had a few days to hang with fam and friends before I left for Delhi, so I thought sleep was trivial and a waste of time. I left Mumbai and reached Delhi yesterday.

Since I think this post is long enough I will post again soon about my adventures thus far in Delhi!

- M to the Jizzle!

Hola chicos y chicas,

I have officially been in China for about 2 weeks! Yesterday, the entire school and I saw the solar eclipse on the beach: Apparently, I just witnessed the longest solar eclipse of the 21st century; you can read more about it here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_eclipse_of_July_22,_2009.

Also, facebook is being a piece of crap so I can't respond to messages, I apologize. Today, the topic of class was "loneliness," so of course we had the students do skits using pick-up lines. We had some classy lines such as "Hey, you look a lot like my next girlfriend" and "Is it hot in here or is it just you?" Indeed, we are teaching Chinese students very important life lessons...

One of the other interns, Alex, describes how Asian girls walk here as the "shopping cart walk": First, you must lose all pride. Then, look down, shuffle your feet, and pretend to be pushing a shopping cart hahaha. Aaaaand we want to take a trip to Qinhuangdao to see HP6 because we still haven't seen it yet! DON'T RUB IT IN MY FACE :(

Peace.

- Willa

woww

Best pick up line: Do you like water? (yes) Well, then you already like 75% of me. Best weight loss plan: Come to Yanyuanjinghua school. Every intern has lost weight because the cafeteria food causes stomach problems and is generally nasty. Last night we played 21, a British truth-or-dare game, and it turned into a massive orgy: guys giving other guys lap dances, guys getting hickeys from other guys...girls kissing girls etc etc. Also, the company here is full of lies. Our original workload of teaching 30 hrs a week has exponentially risen, as more and more "optional" classes and extracurricular activities are shoved on us. Teaching English is great though- today we had the students make Valentine's Day love notes for our lesson on American holidays. Off to the beach now ! :)

Willa

Singing with Lobsters

Hey dudes and dudettes,

So, this past saturday, we went to a Hindustani Classical music concert in the afternoon. There were three dudes on stage playing three different instruments: a tabla (indian drums), a tanpura (4 stringed instrument), and a weird trapezoidal-shaped stringed instrument (let's call it the Trapz) which was played sitting down. To our surprise, the guy playing the Trapz was amazing. I mean, he literally was plucking more than 10 strings per second while the guy playing the tanpura was 1 string every 4 secs. It was hilarious when they were all tuning and the Trapz guy suddenly took the tanpura from the other guy and tuned it for him. Another funny thing about Indian concerts is that people in the audience, to show their appreciation for the music, perform very weird actions. For example, this bald uncle (all indian adults are uncles to us), who was sitting down in front of the performers, started nodding his head as if he was saying "no, this is terrible" and putting his hand out w/ his palm face up (as if to say, "what is this piece of crap?!?!"). However, the nodding of the head, as we all found out later, means "great job", and bringing the hand out demonstrates the audience member's acclamation for the music.
Later, we went to a restaurant called Trisha's in some dark alley near the Mumbai Stock Exchange which supposedly had very expensive seafood. Now, after two weeks of living in Mumbai, any food dish above 100 rupees seems very expensive to V and I. So we thought the seafood in here must cost no more than 400 Rs. max. Well, let's just end by saying my first experience with eating both king crab and lobster ended up costing me more than 1500 Rs. I left the restaurant feeling like there was a huge hole in my pocket. Anyways, that's my weekend update. V's been doing a good job posting about what we've been doing so I'll chime in once in a while. Just so you guys know, here are some recent pictures from a news site covering the Mumbai floods:

Munj is rollin out

Hey yalls,

So I will be leaving for India in a couple hours. I am first heading to Bombay for 3 days 2 nights, and then I will head to Delhi.

Now I have got a present for yalls,

http://www.mylifeisdesi.com/

Don't forget that you heard if first from M to the Jizzle

Signing out,
- Munj

Welcome To The Good Life

So You Think You Can Dance- The Rup Edition
Our apartment minus a chinese guy- Check out the handsome guy on the right (the dark one).
Apparently, they have these cars for India's best emergency contraceptive pill. I guess no one uses it.
Traffic as usual. At this intersection, you always get harassed by these transsexuals called hijraas.
The view of the sea from our window.