| | I was browsing my journal and filling in some things I missed when I came across this page. Thought I'd share. :)
Things I've learned this past week (or so) ...
1. Do not make extra chapatis. Extra dough rots overnight ... and forgotten cooked chapatis turn into a tupperware full of black mold.
2. When the neighbors have to do a sound check for the backyard get together, it's a bad sign! When the sound check is at 9 pm on a Sunday night, it's a really bad sign.
3. India doesn't have snow days. But, it does have brown out days. 7 hours a day of no current is quite hard on my work productivity.
4. Ants are super annoying ... and ubiquitous. Whether they're the biting kind or not, they are disgusting and creepy when they're crawling through everything, on everything, in everything. They're also remarkably stupid. For all their wandering, they still haven't managed to find the food ...
5. Carry an umbrella. Whether it's really raining or not, Indians cannot bear for you to get wet. At the slightest hint of drizzle they will chase you down with an umbrella before letting a drop of water hit your head.
6. If you leave chilies on the terrace to dry in the sun, it will rain. A lot. If you drain them and leave them out to dry again, it will keep raining until you remove them. If is my fault monsoon has come a month early this year.
7. Arranged marriage is no easier than a love match. It comes with its own set of woes, worries, and troubles. It is different, but not easier.
8. Old McDonald is really hard song for 60 teenage girls to sing, especially when you don't know what a farm is ... or a cow ... (Because they don't know English, not because they don't know what a cow is).
9. Yet, little girls living in a children's home who don't know the word "farm" immediately recognize giraffe and kangaroo. 
10. When the coffee shop gets a new guy, you have to train him all over again to get used to you coming and "working" while you drink your coffee (not typical in India except for us ferungis foreigners!). And no power means no computer battery means journaling = working, at least for today.)
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