Thursday, January 29, 2009

Shankar and Mumbai

We did lots of things in Mumbai but I was looking foward to see Shankar and his family the most. I’ve heard lots of things about them and wanted to see what they were like.

Shankar met us by our hotel at about 7:00 and as soon as we got down greeted us warmly. We got in a taxi and rode over to his house. When we got there we saw it wasn’t really a house. It was a very, very, very, very small room in a building, with a BIG family in it.



There was Shankar, his wife Lalitha, their oldest daughter who's in college, Rohini, another daughter who was in 11th grade named Pooja, twins girls in the 7th standard (that’s what they call grade in India) and a boy who’s ten years old. They have only one room.



It shows just how fortunate we really are even if we don’t realize it. Even if you’re a kid who has an old video game and really wants the newest one, be thankful that you have the old one. There are hundreds of thousands of kids who are homeless and poor and would love to have that video game.


For dinner they served us some rice which was very good. After dinner the twins showed us an Indian dance. It was pretty good. We talked a little more and then noticed the time! It was pretty late so we had to go. It was the highlight of my trip in Mumbai.





Other then that Mumbai was b-o-r-i-n-g for me. We went to get some new glasses for Hailey, my dad went to the doctor because he thought he had malaria. Hailey also took a ballet lesson and we went to a place called the Hanging Gardens. It’s called the Hanging Gardens because it’s hanging of a cliff and you can see all of Mumbai from it. I didn’t like it because it was about 95°, I felt sick and I was dehydrated. Good reason not to like something right?


Getting blessed by a Krishna devotee at the Hanging Gardens.


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