Tuesday, June 28, 2011

Commercial Street


Today we went to Commercial Street. It's kind of like a china town. We walked around a lot. I bartered for some sunglasses. It was fun. This dog wouldn't stop following my mom. We went into a store to try to get rid of it, but when we came out the dog was there just waiting for her! It was really funny. Some people eventually shooed it away for us. We saw a rat that was run over on the street. It was a really big rat. A bird flew over and started picking at it.

Sunday, June 26, 2011

First time at church in India


Today we went to church.  We are in the Bangalore 2nd branch.  It’s pretty big for a branch.  For Sunday school, all of the youth 12 to 18 are combined.  It was fun.  When we went to priesthood, I went with the teachers.  There are nine teachers, not including myself.  Two teachers gave a short lesson, and one gave the main lesson.  When we were done, they assigned me to give the main lesson next week.  Also on Saturday they have seminary.  We have to do things on our own during the week and then we all meet on Saturday.  So not only do I have to prepare a lesson to give on Sunday, but my sister and I have to catch up on seminary, because they are already 4 weeks into it.  At least I have something to do with all the free time I have sitting in the hotel.

Bugs in the Pasta

Yesterday for dinner we had some watermelon, cauliflower, and a roll.  We were supposed to have pasta as our main course, but when we cooked it, bugs started floating to the top.  So we didn’t eat it.

Thursday, June 23, 2011

We're Here!


My first day in India was amazing! We went first class from Minneapolis to Chicago. Then we went business class in a huge 747. We were on the second floor. We had big touch screen TVs in front of us, where we could watch Movies, or play games, and other things. They served us dinner, and the seats could lie down flat so you could sleep. The flight lasted about 9 hours. When we arrived in Frankfort Germany, we got on another 747. We were on the bottom level this time. But it was still really great. They served us lunch and dinner. The TVs were not touch screen and they were smaller but you could still watch movies and play games. The seats also lay down all the way. I slept a lot longer on the third flight then I did the second flight.

We arrived in India at around 2 in the morning. We collected our 18 bags and went outside to find our driver. When we went outside, there were three mini vans waiting for us. Two were for our bags, and one was for us. We drove to our hotel, which was interesting. When people drive in India, they do not listen to traffic laws. They don’t use the lines on the road, they drive where ever they want! It’s kind of scary, but fun. When we got to our hotel, we checked in. Then we went to our room. We went to bed and woke up later that morning. We had an appointment with our new school, so our driver took us there. The streets are even crazier during the day then at night!

Eventually we arrived at Canadian International School Bangalore. The school is amazing! It is on a huge open campus. Then hallways don’t have any wall, just pillars. There are tropical plants and flower everywhere! The whole school is gorgeous. I’m going to really like it there.

On the way home we saw some cows on the street. When we got back to our hotel, we all took a nap. We were all jet lagged. When we woke up, it was dinner time. So we went to this Asian restrant. It was really good! I hope our cook cooks for us like that at our new house. We don’t get to live in our new house for three weeks. But we get to visit it soon. I can’t wait. The first day in India has felt like forever, but I enjoyed it.