Saturday October 18th Today is our last day in India. Ari and I got up around 8 and had coffee and tea. I found an ant in my coffee so I dumped a lot of it out and didn't drink anymore. Krishnan plays badminton every evening for 3 hours. He took us over to the place plays so we could all play a game or two. Ari wore shorts which is a no-no in India for girls to wear them. The place was similar to our YMCA. There were cricket fields, tennis courts, and a...

Friday October 17th Today Chris and I were able to sleep in a little bit and we got up at 9. We had another great Indian breakfast with similar foods that we had the day before. It was very good, except by now I am getting tired of eating Indian food. Although it is all very different, to me it is like having the same thing every meal: some sort of bread dipped in a different kind of gravy. Today was our last day with the Raj family, and he was going to...

Thursday October 16th Today was spent pretty much completely away from our families. Chris and I got up at 7 because we were to be dropped off by 8am at the stadium we met our families yesterday to go on a tour of a group of shore temples. Priya was very nice and made us a very authentic Indian breakfast. We had idaly, which is a porridge made of 2 types of rice, pongal (rice and lentels), sambar (lentel and teameron- tangy taste), tomato chaudney (thic...

Wednesday October 15th This morning I woke up at 8:00 and got some breakfast. We were meeting in the Union for the hoem stay at 10:30 so I used the extra time to relax and get all of my stuff together. After meeting in the Union we all boarded a bus outside and departed for a stadium in the center of Chennai where we were to meet our families. The bus pulled up and all of the families were standing there waiting anxiously for us. We got off in pairs acc...

Tuesday October 14th Today we arrived in India! I got up around 7:30 to see us pull into port. As soon as I stepped outside you could smell the unique smells of India. To be honest, it smelled horrible. I watched the ship pull into its spot in the harbor, had breakfast and went to get ready for the day. The diplomatic briefing was at the normal time, 9am in the union. The two U.S. ambassadors that boarded the ship to talk to us were very helpful in givi...