Week 6

Being sick is miserable. Being sick in another country far from your parents and your comfort food is a whole different kind of miserable. I spent a good three days in bed, which as it turned out was exactly what I needed because it gave me the time to do college applications and enter some scholarships. Also a whole different kind of miserable, haha.
 Saturday I was able to go to Lucknow (two hours from me) by myself to meet a wonderful person who would quickly become a friend. Her name is Aishvarya, she was full of historical facts and loads of information I didn't know I needed to know. She had just graduated from a college where they had filmed part of Harry Potter, thus she was a very western Indian which was quite refreshing. She took me to the Bara Imambara 

and the Chota Imambara, 

then to an old boarding school La Martiniere (right next to where the first mutiny took place, the boys from the school ages 4-18 were sent in to fight) where we met Aishvarya's father. He went to the boarding school and still stays in touch with it, he was the best guide. 

Other highlights from the week:

We built a monster out of styrofoam for Ved's factory (Chuk) because it is an environmentally friendly factory.

We currently have a Russian family here with twin boys, the whitest children I've seen in a while. HAHA. I of course had to take a picture biggest to smallest, darkest to lightest.