Vijayawada - Day 9 - Subject: Trains and Fortune Teller!!
Wow, what a cool day!
We arrived in Vijayawada at 5 am in the morning after a 6 hour train trip through the night from Hyderabad. I LOVE trains!!! It was soo much fun. Had to share a cabin with 8 other people which was cool. Here in the South you dont eat with utensils so had my first experience with eating rice with my hands. Must say it is a little tricky with limited space and also a moving train but i did'nt make too much of a mess :) Amit had a really bad stomach due to mixing ice coffee and tea at the airport so he went straight to bed. Going back to yesturdays subject about toilets now. The toilets on the trains are really cool!! They are just holes in the floor and you can see the tracks below. I must say that i actually spent most of the time just staring down the hole in amazement!! And the sound of the wheels on the tracks is wicked.
So then we made our beds and everyone slept. I could'nt really sleep because i was so excited about being on a train. So me and this little girl that slept across from me played Peekaboo until she got told off. Then i just had to sleep. It was a nice feeling lying there with all these people around. Most poor, some sick and then this little white guy from NZ. It made me think a lot about life and how we are all the same, just born into completely different lives. Why was i born so lucky? I could have easily been born to someone in India who lives on the streets and then i could be one of the beggars. Was it meant to be? i dunno what im trying to say but everyone is the same and the lucky ones like me should try their best to help others who are'nt so lucky.
Vijayawada is a quiet little city (compared to Delhi) and has a population of around 1 million, but the area is a fraction of the size of Auckland so seems a lot more packed. We spent the day hanging out with Amits family at home which was really fun! Veni (Amits sister) is really cool and one of the easiest people to get along with. We have come up with a plan that i will move to Vijayawada next year and become a mango farm boy. And to be honest that does actually sound pretty cool. Going to the mango farm tomorrow so will have to make up my mind then ;)
Veni and i went for a walk later in the afternoon. I was wondering why everyone was staring at me more here than in Delhi. Then i found out that most people here had never seen a white person before!!! Travellers do not usually travel to this part of India, and whats even cooler is that tomorrow, when we go to Amits grandfathers village, i will be the first white person to go there!! Pretty cool stuff and i cant wait. Also on the walk we went past this fortune teller. So we both had our fortunes told. He let out a parrot from his cage and told the parrot my name. The parrot then looked at all these cards and picked out the one for me. It was actually quite weird because the parrot actually was sifting through the cards and looked like it was thinking. I thought it is a well trained bird but then what the fortune tellor told me was quite incredible!! Im not going to say what he said (maybe later) but i now feel like i have absolutely nothing to worry about. The stuff he knew tho was a shock!
So today was very interesting and one that i will never forget. It may have even changed the way i think and see even more. I am really excited about tomorrow.
Lance
We arrived in Vijayawada at 5 am in the morning after a 6 hour train trip through the night from Hyderabad. I LOVE trains!!! It was soo much fun. Had to share a cabin with 8 other people which was cool. Here in the South you dont eat with utensils so had my first experience with eating rice with my hands. Must say it is a little tricky with limited space and also a moving train but i did'nt make too much of a mess :) Amit had a really bad stomach due to mixing ice coffee and tea at the airport so he went straight to bed. Going back to yesturdays subject about toilets now. The toilets on the trains are really cool!! They are just holes in the floor and you can see the tracks below. I must say that i actually spent most of the time just staring down the hole in amazement!! And the sound of the wheels on the tracks is wicked.
So then we made our beds and everyone slept. I could'nt really sleep because i was so excited about being on a train. So me and this little girl that slept across from me played Peekaboo until she got told off. Then i just had to sleep. It was a nice feeling lying there with all these people around. Most poor, some sick and then this little white guy from NZ. It made me think a lot about life and how we are all the same, just born into completely different lives. Why was i born so lucky? I could have easily been born to someone in India who lives on the streets and then i could be one of the beggars. Was it meant to be? i dunno what im trying to say but everyone is the same and the lucky ones like me should try their best to help others who are'nt so lucky.
Vijayawada is a quiet little city (compared to Delhi) and has a population of around 1 million, but the area is a fraction of the size of Auckland so seems a lot more packed. We spent the day hanging out with Amits family at home which was really fun! Veni (Amits sister) is really cool and one of the easiest people to get along with. We have come up with a plan that i will move to Vijayawada next year and become a mango farm boy. And to be honest that does actually sound pretty cool. Going to the mango farm tomorrow so will have to make up my mind then ;)
Veni and i went for a walk later in the afternoon. I was wondering why everyone was staring at me more here than in Delhi. Then i found out that most people here had never seen a white person before!!! Travellers do not usually travel to this part of India, and whats even cooler is that tomorrow, when we go to Amits grandfathers village, i will be the first white person to go there!! Pretty cool stuff and i cant wait. Also on the walk we went past this fortune teller. So we both had our fortunes told. He let out a parrot from his cage and told the parrot my name. The parrot then looked at all these cards and picked out the one for me. It was actually quite weird because the parrot actually was sifting through the cards and looked like it was thinking. I thought it is a well trained bird but then what the fortune tellor told me was quite incredible!! Im not going to say what he said (maybe later) but i now feel like i have absolutely nothing to worry about. The stuff he knew tho was a shock!
So today was very interesting and one that i will never forget. It may have even changed the way i think and see even more. I am really excited about tomorrow.
Lance
posted by Lance Wordsworth @ 3:36 AM
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