Speed blogging because Jess needs to use the computer. Don't have any photos of the latest function I've been too, but it was certainly an interesting one. The evening went something like this.
1) We arrived home to find Ramana Sir waiting for us. All he was able to tell us in his broken English was that we were going to a new shop. Very confused that we weren't leaving until 9pm but we got ready and headed downstairs to wait for Ramana to finish watching TV.
2) On arrival at the shop we realised that it was just the shell; an empty room with a room with a decorated cow tied up at one end.
3) We crept around it and up some stairs where I was given a picture of one of the Hindi Gods (Lakshmi devi I think!) and I followed Brahmin Sir and his wife, who were also carrying pictures of Gods. We walked behind a man who was setting coconuts alight and then smashing them on the floor. The final coconut was cracked at the top of the second set of stairs, which were still on fire from the last coconut, when there was no power. Slightly risky in a saree!
4) On our way down we had to creep past the cow again, although this time there was a second obstacle. The cow had been so frightened by the coconut cracking that it had weed and pooed everywhere, and yes, we had to walk through it.
5) We watched various Hindu rituals, had kumkum put on our foreheads and tumeric power on our feet (still can't get the yellow colour off) and drank sugary milk, before heading upstairs again to eat. By this point the cow was gone and one poor man had gone around picking up all the mess with his bare hands.
6) It wasn't until gone eleven that we walked home with our bananas and flowers in our hands, laughing and joking with Ramana and the sweeper ladies
Such good fun, but was exhausted at school the next day!
1) We arrived home to find Ramana Sir waiting for us. All he was able to tell us in his broken English was that we were going to a new shop. Very confused that we weren't leaving until 9pm but we got ready and headed downstairs to wait for Ramana to finish watching TV.
2) On arrival at the shop we realised that it was just the shell; an empty room with a room with a decorated cow tied up at one end.
3) We crept around it and up some stairs where I was given a picture of one of the Hindi Gods (Lakshmi devi I think!) and I followed Brahmin Sir and his wife, who were also carrying pictures of Gods. We walked behind a man who was setting coconuts alight and then smashing them on the floor. The final coconut was cracked at the top of the second set of stairs, which were still on fire from the last coconut, when there was no power. Slightly risky in a saree!
4) On our way down we had to creep past the cow again, although this time there was a second obstacle. The cow had been so frightened by the coconut cracking that it had weed and pooed everywhere, and yes, we had to walk through it.
5) We watched various Hindu rituals, had kumkum put on our foreheads and tumeric power on our feet (still can't get the yellow colour off) and drank sugary milk, before heading upstairs again to eat. By this point the cow was gone and one poor man had gone around picking up all the mess with his bare hands.
6) It wasn't until gone eleven that we walked home with our bananas and flowers in our hands, laughing and joking with Ramana and the sweeper ladies
Such good fun, but was exhausted at school the next day!
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