India

Well Mel you wanted to know what it was like to live in India so I thought I might as well just start a thread.*S*

Um I have no idea where to begin...I lived in India for a mere two months and I know that 1 day I'll live there again. My time there was the most life changing experience I've ever had.

It's strange but it was weirder coming back then it was to go there...before you leave you mentally prepare for the new culture but it's coming back to your own that is difficult.

So Mel I don't know what you want to know so ask away and anyone else for that matter*S*

I sent you for a Kashmiri Korma 6 months ago! geeeeeezzzz! That will be the last time i phone your company for an Indian meal http://www.hostboard.com/ubb/frown.gif

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hmmmmm! *thinkin

You got any pics???
if you got sum i'll get them posted for ya!!
what did you do while you were there???
Did the people treat you any different???
Why did you pick India to go to???
Was it disappointing to come home???
Where did you stay???

I jus never get the chances to go ANYWHERE so i just like to hear about other peoples when they go...n...stuff http://www.hostboard.com/ubb/smile.gif

*thinks back to those 38 rolls of film* Yeah I got pics mel...I'll scan them and send them your way.

Being a girl and white at that, I was treated very differently. In India the caste system is still very prevalent despite what some may say, and the rights of women are minimal if from a lower caste. This does not change if you're from another country...it was hard for me to get shop keepers not to rip me off and richshaw drivers to do the same*S*...ah the richshaw*L

I didn't really chose India...in fact when I first found out that I was going there I was less than thrilled and now all I want to do is go back...but the rest of the world waits and I want to see other places before I do that.

It wasn't disappointing to come home...just really different...I started to get really affected about the poverty that I was seeing because it was everywhere in India. I visited "homes" that housed 9 people and were not much bigger than your tiniest of bathrooms and with a lower ceiling.

My first month there a group of us stayed at an apartment in Bangalore and the second month we room and boarded in Hydrabad*S*

Kay this is a pic of one of the happiest days of my life...the little girl's name was Gita and she never wanted any of the other kids to play with me*VBS*

http://members.theglobe.com/melspg/juuly.jpg

The next one is pretty much what some of the slums look there

http://members.theglobe.com/melspg/slums.jpg

And this one is of people that lived in a leper colony

http://members.theglobe.com/melspg/leper.jpg

And my basic mode of transportation*sigh* how I miss those things*S*

http://members.theglobe.com/melspg/rickshaw.jpg

And this was the "bathroom"*LMFAO

http://members.theglobe.com/melspg/squattie.jpg

Kay I hope this didnt completely bore you but Mel asked and I complied*S*

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how come I cant see em?

Whew..I thought it was only me..*L*...I wanna see those pic's dammit.. http://www.hostboard.com/ubb/frown.gif

you fools...i can see them fine pfft

I can't either Blanca...Kerala...post em right you dork *L

my!God! it wasnt even easy with this piece of shit! browser NetCrap!!
I had to try like three times each pic to get it from e-mail the right fuckin way!
NetShit! just dont work right!! I want my IE back so bad i could cry!!
it's 2pm and i've been workin since 5am this morning try'n to get all the pics to work...
here and on the baby pic thread...
i'm tired!!

There wonderful pics Kerala I'll post on them when i get some rest ..k...*hugs u http://www.hostboard.com/ubb/smile.gif

Wow! some of those pics scare me.
Did you go visit Bombay? That's where my favorite pro-wrestler, Sabu, is from. http://www.hostboard.com/ubb/wink.gif

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BEAR!! HEEEEEEEEY.....welcome back! I read on the spawn board you took "some time" off....glad to see you're back

*gives ya a big ol bear hug*

Thanks. I think it's cooled down over there now though. I hope.

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very cool pics kerlala!

that looks kinda like my old car, and yeah i remember those squat toilets...I got pretty good at them.

I could squat on the train while reading a book, and eating a snickers bar. Actually my aim was always a little off.

But that's another story...ever notice the more you sleep the more tired you are.

thanks for the pics Kerala....*s* they are very sad living conditions over there tho....

No Bear I didn't get the chance to go to Bombay..the only other place that I went in India other than Bangalore and Hydrabad was Kerala...which is on the west coast of India...I went swimming for the first time in the ocean there*VBS*...and yeah War it was really sad...but you'll find some of the happiest people there*S*

kerala, do they know what other places(countries) look like to compare what they have to others?
does the assistance they get help, or do they get any kind of assistance??
does the jobcor, help with the abitlity to teach the communty to be self reliante??
how much technology do they have (if any)??
how sheltered are they from what happens in the world???
sorry asking to many questions.....

No Warlord I have yet to have the opportunity to go to another under developed country, but I would love to one day. http://www.hostboard.com/ubb/biggrin.gif

Because of the caste system the "untouchables" or those that live in the slums are not helped at all...they are in their position because they have somehow not managed to apease the gods. So often parents cripple their children so that others will be sympathetic to them begging and even still others sell their children into temple prostitution. Although many deny this happens it does and you can't escape the truth of that as you walk the streets.

I knew a lady that worked in the hospitals of India and because she was from the highest caste...Brahman...everytime she dealt with someone from a lower caste she had to go through a purification process...so when people tell me the caste system no longer exists I have a hard time believing it.

The people that do help those in need are often Christian missionaries, but the religious persecution there is rampant...while I was there a father and his children were burnt alive in their car by Hindu radicals...he had devoted his life for 17 years working in a leper hospital.

As far as technology is concerned they are not behind the times...on every corner you'll find a place where you can check your email and what not. In fact the leader of Hydrabad was cleaning up the city because it was to become the headquarters for Microsoft India while we were there.

Kay I've managed to ramble, but I hope that answered your questions. http://www.hostboard.com/ubb/biggrin.gif