Week 4

ONE MONTH!!!

I cannot believe it's already been a month here! In so many ways it has felt so long and in so many ways it has felt so short. I am beyond proud of myself for doing this, I never thought it possible a year or even a few months ago.
While I've been here I've made it a goal to try everything I possibly can and experience all that I can handle. I've picked up my new slogan from my host mom, "Why not, you're in India." This has landed me in a couple interesting situations. This week the situation happened to be singing at an Indian concert. Yes, this is exactly what it sound like. 
My host father had been bugging me to sing since I arrived, but I had told him that I feel more comfortable in front of one hundred people rather than two. I had eventually sung for Ved and a few of his family, but the endless bugging had not subsided. So when we showed up to a concert, that sounded like a teenage boy band that had been roughly thrown together and did not appeal to the ears, and they were offering people from the audience to get up and sing, I was immediately volunteered. I was pushed up to the stage and the one thing that stopped me from freaking out was, "why not, you're in India." The first song that came to my head was She Used to be Mine from Waitress on Broadway.

I got up on stage expecting to sing it acapella and ended up being accompanied by the band, which confused me so much and made us both sound very out of tune. But when else was I gonna get an opportunity like this ever again? Needless to say, it was an exciting evening. I now have more paparazzi than before. Haha! 

I was also able to attend the festival of Durga and eat with my hands for the  first time.  (pictured, Vidya, Ved's daughter, on my right and Nance, the babysitter on my left)

That's been most of the excitement for the week. (And for those asking, yes I do have access to General Conference and am excited to watch it when I find a spare moment)