It’s Saturday… and it feels like a normal Saturday. We slept in a bit this morning, ate our peanut butter nutella with sliced bananas on toast and our maxim 3-in-1 coffee, just took our time to get ready… read a bit… spent some time with Him… and then headed out. We hit up New Market and wandered the stalls for some Indian clothing. We sweat so easily that it’s just not possible to keep doing laundry at the rate we are, and secondly, I dress like a sloppy American so hopefully this will help us blend in a bit more. I love that we can purchase something and then go upstairs and have it altered right there, for like a fraction of the time and cost than in America. I mean… shortening sleeves of a shirt and keeping the embroided cuffs, and cinching in the sides of the shirt cost me less than $0.50 US. Afterwards, we wandered over to the backpacker area and had a quick lunch at this street stall that has yummy kimchi’ish dishes… kimchi fried rice.. kimchi noodles… ratatouille… etc. Jane and I actually ate here a few years ago upon our first visit to India. It was delish although super spicy!
After our sweaty market shopping, we headed to the complete opposite shopping experience – a high class shopping mall. We wanted some AC… now we’re sitting on the top floor (6th floor), at the Coffee Bean drinking an iced cappuccino and eating pound cake. Yum. Well, it’s not really all that yum as it’s a bit stale, but it’s just nice to not be wandering around sweating, and sit in air conditioning. It’s a bit sad that this makes us happy, but it does. Sorry.
Continuing my post that I started earlier… we ripped out the post-it notes to accompany our coffee, stale yet addictive pound cake, and debriefed our meeting yesterday with CSS. Oh man we used up nearly a full pack of post-its! Lots of observations and takeaways from yesterday. We kept getting stared at… with our macbooks sitting out, yellow post-its all over the table, and well, two foreigners I guess would cause a stare anyways. After a fruitful meeting, we wandered a bit more, and then grabbed a bite at the mall food court, picked up some groceries down the street, and then headed back to the apartment.
Our room has been a bit stinky the past few days and we couldn’t figure out why… until today… I am learning how important it is to wring out your clothes as much as possible before hanging them to dry. I wrung them, but perhaps not enough, and then hung them in our other bathroom which is hot and musty… then moved the clothing into the bedroom the next day… the result… stinky! So, I just spent the past couple hours rewashing and wringing clothes out. Wow – what a workout! My fingers are so sore from wringing! good thing I live with someone who has much experience hand washing clothing… a good teacher indeed. I appreciate washing machines and dryers so much.
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