Trip to a Rural Village

As promised, pictures from our trip to a tribal village. I'm particularly proud of these pictures, so I may be a bit cocky.

A view from the six-hour drive.

From left: Akta, Priyanka, me and Chelsea, 4 of the people in my ride.

This is definitely my favorite thing we saw on the ride.

Yeah, it's a massive Ganesh riding down the road. (We're in the middle of a massive festival celebrating Ganesh, who, as you may or may not know, has always been a fascination of mine.)

We visited several different NGOs, one of which that focused on sustainable gardening. Naturally this is one of my favorite things, thanks to working at the Garden for eight years. Got some nice pictures there.

Earthworms!

And now for the village itself:

A guy processing cashews.

Pat and Kim playing cards.

I believe this is Dani and Kara doing some wandering. I don't care, I'm very proud of this picture.

I loved this little kid, he was posing so much.

This is my favorite picture of the batch.

Goats!

Some local crafts. Would you believe that these are papier-mache?

My buddy Pat is basically five, even though he's the oldest of us.

My buddy Chris, enjoying the flowers that each of us received. (I love taking pictures of other people taking pictures.)

Kim.

Hope everyone enjoys their weekend! My roommates are all out of town, so I'm flying solo for the weekend. I might go shopping on Laxmi Road tomorrow. (Again, I am a total clotheshorse now. I bought two new kurtas the other day, and they were cheap, too!)

What else? Oh, I started my Indian voice lessons this week! We've been learning variations of raga scales. They're fascinating, too. The base note ("Sa") is the same as "Do" in the Western scale, but all the other notes are slightly different pitches from their counterparts. Also, the syllables are different- instead of Do-Re-Mi-Fa-So-La-Ti, it's Sa-Re-Ga-Ma-Pa-Dha-Ni.

G'night, everybody!