Yesterday we went for a Picnic with all the nursery school teachers to Palitana. First, let me say, Indians apparently don't have the same notion of what a picnic is - they ate all their food on the bus.
It was a nice day, but very tiring. We left at 9am (having already taught dance for an hour) and first visited a farm house where it was nice to mix with the Village people. I like taking part in their day to day lives. I learnt how to play the kids' tyre game (basically you roll it as far as it will go!) and finallyyyy got to attempt to balance an urn of water on my head. Not. Easy. Seriously, I thought the whole dance thing would work in my favour here, I have pretty good balance and pretty good posture most of the time, but I struggled. It was heavy too - and we only tried one small one - these women balance three or four on their head at a time!
We spent a few hours at market window shopping the sari's and jewellery and all those nice but random stalls you find! And we got home about 9pm.
Nabbed a much needed lie in on Sunday!
Mmm that day was HAWT but very nice :) not tooo hot :) but still hot! haha i enjoyed it loads... the bus journey was different....very...VERY loud! Seriously, imagine being crammed in a school bus full of indian nursery teachers playing very loud music... and walking around as if theres enough space on the bus! lol it was an experience in itself but also...fun to be apart of.
The farm house that we settled in for a couple of hours was lovely :) big red farm house with cattle, lots of shade, surrounded by fields or crops and stuff :) a couple of horses and yeah...it was just nice to relax after that bus journey.
Popped into market for, well quite a while... bought some stupidly funny keyrings that i could resist, and not much else, but it was really nice to look around and browse :) Once we got back to the farm house we chilled for a little bit more and made our way to Palitana town to visit a few temples. One we had already seen that had amazing views and another smaller one that was quite interesting. Although as they were doing their type of service and passing round a mini bowl of fire for everyone to cleanse themselves with i did feel slightly out of place...
It was a looooong day but it was really fun :) oh and the other little farmhouse across the street was growing sugar cane, im shocked at how fast those girls can devour a cane thats about at least a meter long... plus a cute little baby with a BEAUTIFUL mother :)
