Victory!

Today I conquered the court.

You may remember from my last post here that I was shafted from playing a game with a bunch of Indian guys.

Today it all changed.

I came, I played, and I scored.

It may have helped that I brought along two 6 ft 4 white guys to get into the game.

It was the most frantic game I have ever seen in my entire life- and that's saying something.

They had absolutely NO strategy at all... you'd think I'd feel right at home in this situation. 

Not so.

I have to admit...I miss playing with my boys back home. 

They may be harder on me, but I can at least SOMETIMES figure out what's going on!

Anyway... it was fun, and good exercise.

I also made a basket.

Respect?

I think I earned a bit

...at least they started passing to me

 

Friday activities:

Calling NGO partners.

I needed to call Aarvind today.

Aarvind has a STRONG indian accent.

He also has a lisp.

It's kinda hard to understand the man in person so I was freaking out about calling him

What if I couldn't understand him and it'd be a disaster and I ruined the relationship between his organization and ours?!

I wrote down a script so I wouldn't freak out so much.

Ok I know that sounds ridiculous...but I wanted to be prepared

Have you ever talked to an important Indian man with a lisp? 

I didn't think so....so don't judge.

I spared myself the embarrassment of posting what that conversation looked like only because it ended up being fruitless.

I called him twice and he never picked up.

Guess I'll have to try again monday

For lunch we went to our favorite restaurant.

We discussed projects and ate some of the best Indian food EVER.

This little gem is only about 2 blocks from our house 

and 

they have air conditioning

AND

they also serve more Northern Indian food which is more  like what we eat in the US

It's amazing

This is the dessert they gave us...cute huh?

It's ice cream and some sort of fried cake bite thing

Delicious

Our Friday evening consisted of running errands

We were searching for "That Thing You Do" to rent.

We made friends with the owner of the rental store by our house

He has almost every Hollywood and Bollywood movie you could ever want

His motto is "You name it- We have it"

Not technically true....since he has to order in the movie we wanted

 but he'll have it for us by tomorrow

In the meantime we considered this award winner:

Quality.

Friday night- Our country directors ordered in.

We fully approved of their choice

Believe me...pizza has never tasted this good

Our next venture was making no-bake cookies

Finding all of the ingredients at the store was a challenge

They delegated the task of actually making them to me

This was my first experience making them

It took me three batches to get the consistency right...I didn't have any measuring cups so I had to guesstimate everything

Apparently they were a hit 

and I was crowned a culinary genius 

I'm not sure if I'd go that far....our group is just a little sugar deprived- that's all

Last but not least 

It's friday night

we had to entertain ourselves somehow...

No, we weren't playing spin the bottle don't worry

I might have introduced the group to a certain date called the 43 kisses date

I've personally never tried it

but it's worth a few laughs

We also introduced certain members of our group to "the Bachelorette"

This led to the whole group playing a version of the game

There are MANY videos produced during this incident

But I'll spare you

It can get crazy in this house with nothing to do

Luckily- we have a concert planned for tomorrow

Thank goodness

Love,

A