Friday, March 5, 2010

Dec 31, 2009 3:30 India time

So we just got on the sleeper bus and everything was pretty routine until 2 mins ago when one of the bus guys just sprayed like a whole can of air freshener in the bus! gag!!! LOL so the sleeper buses are crazy!! it has 5 rooms with 4 bunks in each.... Really narrow bunks mind you... :) should be an interesting experience we are going to be on here for about 8 hours.... I heard that Indian roads are crazy so we might get jostled a bit... Haha we already are gettin jostled and we are still on the main roads.... ;)

So outside the airport there were hundreds of people waitin for idk, something... But I noticed a lot of the men had there ears covered but idk why yet... [ me again at my computer in Ohio, found out that the reason they had their ears covered was because they were cold!!! it was like 80 degrees! no joke! they thought it was cold! we thought it had to be some religious practice! nope! they were just cold!)

[ ok, the next little bit, might be kinda jumbled and disconnected, but i'm letting you read exactly what was coming to my mind and what i was writing down as we traveled on the sleeper bus in the early morning in Hyderbad, India]

Also the airport was really nice but it didn't look like it was used much... Someplaces were completely bare... In rooms there was stuff but it just looked empty.... It just felt weird....

We are in what I would call a slum right now except I don't know if it really is a slum.... I've been in rough spots of Chicago and Cleveland but this is nothing.... American products have their bilboards all over the place.... Bilboards are huge, everywhere and badly maintained... The poverty is gut- wrentching...

They drive on the left side of the road and our driver honks his horn and zooms past other cars.... Other cars do the same....

Poor. That's the word I would use to desribe India. It heartbreaking... Why are we so blessed [remember this word! i will get into this word in much more detail later in my trip] ?

Just passed a legit slum. Peices of wood, plastic and just scraps of stuff made small lean too.....

Driver just had to slam on the breaks for stray dogs... Already seen 5 in the hour I've been here....

People are starting to get their days going and I see people walking around....

Filthy. There is trash everywhere.

Cars and a lot of big trucks are parked haphazardly all over the streets. Doesn't seem to be much order or organization..

Starting to see people get breakfast... It's now 4:36.

Saw some wealtherier homes... Had barbedwire around them...

No glass in any of the windows, just holes...

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